06/19/05

If you've been paying attention to left-wing propaganda mills like Air America radio, or studying the distant back pages of the New York Times and USA Today, or -- perchance -- reading the Minneapolis Star-Tribune's upstart editorial page, you might have encountered mention of something called the 'Downing Street Memo.' Yeah. What the hell is that? Well, the Downing Street Memo (or DSM) summarizes a top-secret meeting among foreign policy consultants to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The discussion took place eight months before the invasion of Iraq by U.S. President George W. Bush's 'coalition of the willing.' The memo was leaked to the Times of London and published on May 1st, 2005. It provides a damning insight into the Bush regime's stampede toward war, indicating -- without much ambiguity -- that launching a military blitzkrieg was the first, and only, option under consideration. It contradicts months of subsequent White House assurances that war was a 'last resort'...

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0619-31.htm

from Common Dreams, by David Benjamin



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