\nmain revelation of the Downing Street memo<\/B><\/FONT><\/A> as “vague
\nbut intriguing.” In other words, it doesn’t believe that “intelligence and facts were being fixed
\naround the policy” to invade Iraq. McGovern, who ripped into the press for knuckling under to
\nthe Bush regime, says there’s “nothing vague” about the memo and, far from intriguing, “it’s
\ndepressing.”<\/P>
\n
McGovern points out further that 1) the head of Iraq’s WMD programs — Saddam Hussein’s John Conyers Jr., left, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, will hold a The long answer: It’s not an official committee hearing, because the Republican majority Amy Goodman interviewed both Conyers and McGovern on Democracy Now!
\nson-in-law Hussein Kamel<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, who defected
\nfrom Iraq, then returned and was executed — told the U.S. regime that the WMD had been
\ndestroyed in 1991 and that 2) Cheney Boy himself claimed he was a fully reliable source of
\ninformation who proved that Iraq had WMD. But 3) somehow Cheney Boy et al chose not to
\nbelieve this reliable source’s info that the WMD had been destroyed, which, as we all know, has
\nbeen proven correct. Ain’t that cherry pickin’ peculiar.<\/P>
\n![](\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/images\/conyersPHOTO.jpg\")
<\/A>Also, did I speak too
\nsoon<\/B><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A> yesterday when I said I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting
\nfor an investigation of the Bush regime’s headlong invasion of Iraq? The short answer: Yes.<\/P>
\n
\nhearing Thusday in the Capitol on the Downing Street memo and the regime’s “effort to cook the
\nbooks on pre-war intelligence.” The bigger question is whether Georgie Boy violated the
\nconstitution in his rush to war.<\/P>
\n
\nwould not allow it. Conyers, who also accuses the U.S. press of a deafening silence, was going to
\nhold the hearing at the Democratic National Committee. But he told Democracy Now! this
\nmorning that he finally wangled a room in the Capitol.<\/P>
\n
\nstuff.<\/B><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A> As soon as DN puts up the video and\/or a transcript of
\nthe interview, we’ll post the link. In the meantime, read McGovern on the SECRET UK
\nEYES ONLY briefing document<\/B><\/FONT><\/A> that preceded the Downing Street memo
\nand on the “proof”<\/B><\/FONT><\/A> (his term) that Georgie
\nBoy “fixed the facts.”<\/B><\/P>
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