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May 06, 2005
THE GUN THAT SMOKES
"Here it is," Greg Palast writes. "The smoking gun." He's referring to the secret Downing Street memo of July 23, 2002, sent to the British Defense Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General and several other top British government officials at the time. It was disclosed earlier this week in The Times of London, which quotes it verbatim:
This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know its contents.Palast believes the memo "has 'IMPEACH HIM' written all over it." Meaning the him in the White House. (Fat chance.) Palast is also pissed off that the American press, unlike the British press, has made so little of the memo.C reported on his recent talks in Washington. ... 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. [Boldface added.]
Posted by at May 6, 2005 11:41 AM
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