Conyers on Downing Street Memo
Jun 17 at 2:02pm by Jagwire X
Downing Street
An excerpt from the Downing Street Memo:
C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime’’s record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.
Yesterday John Conyers (D-MI) held an informal hearing regarding the Downing Street Memo. In case you haven’t heard of it the Downing Street Memo reveals that the highest British officials, including the prime minister, were aware that the Bush administration had the intelligence and facts “fixed around the policy”. Usually the policy is based on the facts. This is a very important, as it indicates that there was a pre-existing desire to go to war and the intelligence was manipulated or created to support that desire. The Bush administration, in other words, deceived Congress and people of the United States into going to war with Iraq.
In case you are interested, deceiving Congress is a felony and the president in the March 19, 2002 Congressional Record, submitted to Congress his case for war. If that case for war is knowingly false, the president has committed a felony and that is an impeachable offense for which he should be prosecuted.
Link to the Downing Street Memo
Link to Conyers “Hearing on the Downing Street Memo” (C-SPAN) - note the hearing is about 2 hours long.
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