skippy the bush kangaroo

Saturday, June 11, 2005

the sleeping giant corporate media is finally waking up and smelling the stench...

oh, looky..mention of the downing street memo...it made the front cover too! what...they finally get inspired by deep throat to tell some truth about the lies and abuses of this corrupt administration?
a briefing paper prepared for british prime minister tony blair and his top advisers eight months before the u.s.-led invasion of iraq concluded that the u.s. military was not preparing adequately for what the british memo predicted would be a "protracted and costly" postwar occupation of that country.

the eight-page memo, written in advance of a july 23, 2002, downing street meeting on iraq, provides new insights into how senior british officials saw a bush administration decision to go to war as inevitable, and realized more clearly than their american counterparts the potential for the post-invasion instability that continues to plague iraq.

....saying that "we need to be sure that the outcome of the military action would match our objective," the memo's authors point out, "a post-war occupation of iraq could lead to a protracted and costly nation-building exercise." the authors add, "as already made clear, the u.s. military plans are virtually silent on this point. washington could look to us to share a disproportionate share of the burden." - wapo

and more news from across the pond....(kinda sad when you find out more about your own country from papers in ol' blighty)

ministers were warned in july 2002 that britain was committed to taking part in an american-led invasion of iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.

the warning, in a leaked cabinet office briefing paper, said tony blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of saddam hussein at a summit at the texas ranch of president george w bush three months earlier.

the briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was “necessary to create the conditions” which would make it legal. - timesonline


when the memo starts off with these raging "bullet points", you would think our media might stood up and taken notice of other memos sooner...
1. the us government's military planning for action against iraq is proceeding apace. but, as yet, it lacks a political framework. in particular, little thought has been given to creating the political conditions for military action, or the aftermath and how to shape it.

2. when the prime minister discussed iraq with president bush at crawford in april he said that the uk would support military action to bring about regime change, provided that certain conditions were met: efforts had been made to construct a coalition/shape public opinion, the israel-palestine crisis was quiescent, and the options for action to eliminate iraq's wmd through the un weapons inspectors had been exhausted.

read this new memo. then tell others to read it...who will tell others to read it. then let's get busy.....

i love the smell of impeachment in the summer.
posted by Cookie Jill at 9:59 PM |

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