"Memo hints Bush made Intel fit policy" - front page of Charlotte Observer

[Esse Quam Videri]

I was almost knocked over when I saw this headline when I opened the paper this morning. It was placed at the top right of the paper and though it didn't restate the whole context of the report we have been reading here over the last week it did report:
"There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable," the MI-6 chief said at the meeting, "Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action, justified by conjunction of terrorism and WMD"

"The memo said ' the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy' "

The writers were Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott of Knight Ridder. Hopefully others around the country who have Knight Ridder as their publisher of their local papers will wake up to the same great surprise!

[xultar]

1. Ahh looks like the kool-aid is wearing off. n/t

[Jacobin]

2. Damn librul media coming to the heartland!!!

Why do they hate our freedoms?

I'm looking forward to reading the LTTE tomorrow cancelling subscriptons for saying mean things about our glorious and popular wartime pretlzdent

[Kolesar]

3. Knight-Ridder was the one chain who distinguished themselves

by publishing real facts about the war even two years ago. It got drowned out in the orchestrated Bush-media-war machine, though. I am still waiting to see BUSH LIED in 144 point type on the headlines over the fold.

[dalloway]

4. let's see if others pick it up now that the British elections

are over.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. It is likely that Blair will be forced to resign soon

and when he does he will be facing war crimes charges. If Blair gets charged, then Bush will be going down with him.

[dalloway]

5. let's see if others pick it up now that the British elections

are over.

[BR_Parkway]

6. And it gains traction across the internet - when you Google it:

edited to remove screwed up link

26 other papers are showing that headline.

[CarolNYC]

8. kudos to Knight Ridder

It's about time someone started reporting on this....Hopefully, people pay attention.

[Kolesar]

7. Akron Beacon Journal & Ohio.com

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/11574258.htm

Posted on Thu, May. 05, 2005





Memo: Bush made intel fit Iraq policy

By WARREN P. STROBEL and JOHN WALCOTT

Knight Ridder Newspapers


WASHINGTON - A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.

The document, which summarizes a July 23, 2002, meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair with his top security advisers, reports on a visit to Washington by the head of Britain's MI-6 intelligence service.

The visit took place while the Bush administration was still declaring to the American public that no decision had been made to go to war.

"There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable," the MI-6 chief said at the meeting, according to the memo. "Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD," weapons of mass destruction.

The memo said "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

[sellitman]

9. Boycott the charlotte Observer!!!

:sarcasm: Cancel your subscription. The editors are commie, Liberal terrorists. Not to stand with our great moral leader during times of war should be enough to shut this paper down. :sarcasm:

[Lochloosa]

11. The Repub paper in Jacksonville, FL gave it two inches

on page 6A....almost missed it. I was surprised that it got that much.

[seabeyond]

12. the bitch, we watched this happen leading up to the war

and then later we all knew it. we heard from a karen k. ? inside cheneys secret government tell us this was happening. it has all been laid out

[flordehinojos]

13. "HINTS?" @@@&&&***!!!! WHY DON'T THEY COME OUT RIGHT AND SAY IT?!!!!!!

that is what they ought to be doing!