evil bastards. i wonder what'll happen. probably nothin, and conyers'll "disappear"
http://www.johnconyers.campaignoffice.com/index.asp?Type=SUPERFORMS&SEC=%7B0F1B03E0-080B-4100-B143-36A5985EF1E3%7D
Conyers request is pasted below:
Dear Friend:
As many of you are aware, a classified memo was recently disclosed in Great Britain that I believe has serious ramifications for the integrity of the United States Government.
Dubbed the “Downing Street Memo,” but actually comprising the minutes of a meeting of Prime Minister Tony Blair and other top British government officials, the memo casts serious doubt on many of the contentions of the Bush Administration in the lead up to the Iraq war. With over 1,600 U.S. servicemen and servicewomen killed in Iraq, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and over $200 billion in taxpayer funds going to this war effort, we cannot afford to stand by any longer.
Along with 88 of my colleagues, I wrote to the President requesting answers about this grave matter. Thus far, our search for the truth has been stonewalled and I need your help. I believe the American people deserve answers about this matter and should demand directly that the President tell the truth about the memo. To that end, I am asking you to sign on to a letter to the President requesting he answer the questions posed to him by 89 Members of Congress.
I will personally insure that this letter is delivered to the White House.
You can read the letter here and sign on to it below. You and I know the White House is just hoping that this matter will fade away, but in a few short weeks, with our steadfastness, the memo has found its way into leading newspapers and White House press briefings. With your help, we can hold this Administration accountable.
Please pass on this important letter to your friends and colleagues, and ask them to sign as well.
Thank you for your help and support.
John Conyers, Jr.
― lysander spooner, Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.cjrdaily.org/archives/001532.asp...Truth be told, there isn't anything entirely new in the memo. Reports have come out here and there -- including in Bob Woodward's book, Bush at War, released last year -- that show that plans for the invasion got underway in November 2001, when the president ordered Donald Rumsfeld to begin drawing up invasion scenarios.The Oregonian's Arrieta-Walden makes this very point. Protestations of some critics notwithstanding, he says that "some aspects of the story make it not as newsworthy as some of the advocates think. ... [It] refers to one person's recollection of this meeting -- although it confirms in some way some of the information that has come out over time through the investigations of intelligence failures in the sense of some of the errors and bad assumptions made. I guess what I'm saying, really, is that it isn't the slam dunk, necessarily, that they see it as..."
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)
interesting reading. thanks. i mean, it's not like there's going to be an impeachment while there's a republican congress anyways. but maybe this will help fuel an investigation further down the line.
― lysander spooner, Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)
He's the opposite of a Republican. He's black, a liberal, and he posts on dailykos!
― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)