06/13/05

What has become known as the Downing Street Memo is a report on a meeting between Rycroft and the White House in July 2002 -- a good seven months before Bush invaded Iraq. The memo says Bush had already decided to attack. It also says Bush knew there were no WMDs in Iraq, but that 'the facts were being fixed around the policy.' This, my fellow Americans, is the hottest news out there in the big, old rest of the world. The story, which has been reported prominently in The Times of London since May 1, has gotten more hits on the Internet than any other in the newspaper's history. All the world -- except America - is buzzing about the fact that George Bush created the WMD threat to justify his war in Iraq. But here in America, where news is increasingly controlled by the White House, this story has barely made the back pages. Still not a word about it on CNN. And it's only in the past couple of weeks that the Washington Post has started writing about it...

http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/06/13/bethcolj.htm

from Times Herald-Record, by Beth Quinn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp


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