Blair Denies Memos Prove Iraq Decision- Yahoo

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050629/ap_on_re_eu/blair_interview

By PAISLEY DODDS, Associated Press Writer 11 minutes ago

LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday the "Downing Street memos" paint a distorted picture, and he insisted that the Iraq war was not predetermined by the United States.

"People say the decision was already taken. The decision was not already taken," he said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. denial stage.. they are no longer laughing

[berni_mccoy]

3. You nailed it.

Great point.

[Goldmund]

7. I love that graph.

"Incompetence" :eyes:

[truebrit71]

2. Bullshit!

You lie!!!!

FUCK YOU POODLE-BOY!!!

[Oreo]

4. Bush must have forced his hand on this

Wants his stooge to refute it. I'm sure the UK will love this excuse

[Solly Mack]

5. Of course he'd deny it

he's just as guilty

[wakeme2008]

6. Look Tony bush is tanking in the polls

and you are trying to be his good buddy...... * ship is sinking...

[marmar]

8. His nose is stretching from Heathrow to Dulles...

Sorry Tony, you've created this big pile of shit, now you're sinking in it.

:nopity:

[BlueEyedSon]

9. "Criminal declares innocence"... DUH!

[lovuian]

10. Ok Now he is blatantly lying!!!

tsk tsk tsk!!!

[LightningFlash]

11. Hey Blair. Asshole. The game is up, everyone knows you lie like a nitwit.

The british govt. is ready to take your lying scandalous ass down and over to the ICC for a fun little tour! :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

Maybe you will in fact join Cheney's GITMO cell of wonderful southern fun, a way away in the fucking tropics.

Full inquiry and investigation of all DSM and WAR ACTIVITIES!!!!

:mad: :mad:

http://www.usalone.com/index.htm

[Imagevision]

12. At this stage of the game Blair & Bush will deny their ass off - Re: DSM

[Jack Rabbit]

13. Explain it to the judge, Tony

The Palace of Peace
The Hague
Home of the International Criminal Court

Photo from the Instituut voor Internationaal Reecht (Belgium)

[Rainscents]

14. Have Brit charged him yet? I hope they did!

[LightningFlash]

25. First thing they did....

When the foreign nationals office found the real evidence of chemical weapons being exploded on Iraqis......

[Rainscents]

27. Oh great news!!! I hope he rot in jail!

Thanks for info! :hi:

[Mokito]

28. It's the first time I see a pic of it.

That's one awe-inspiring building!

[DemsUnited]

15. Like seeing denials because MSM is more comfortable

using them as a springboard for their reporting.

For example, DSM coverage only took off in this country after the DSM question was raised at the Bush/Blair press conference. That way, MSM was able to report that Bush/Blair denied "fixing intelligence" and introduced the DSMs as a support to the story.\

NOT letting MSM off the hook for appalling lack of investigative reporting, but if the only way DSM gets covered is through the backdoor of denials, then let the denials begin.

[Imagevision]

16. Blair can deny all he wants - lets get on with the DSM investigation

An INDEPENDANT investigation and allow the chips to fall where they may!

[burythehatchet]

17. Tell it to the judge at The Hague you lowlife. A chimp's poodle

how low can you go.

[Career Prole]

18. This settles the "authenticity" question once and for all, I'd say. n/t

[chalky]

23. Yep. With every interview I ignore the extraneous "you're misintepreting

them!" bullshit and look for him to craft a comment that would imply that they're fakes, forgeries, or are in any way inauthentic.

Funny thing is--he never does.

Oh...and this?:

"The trouble with having a political discussion on the basis of things that are leaked is that they are always taken right out of context. Everything else is omitted from the discussion and you end up focusing on a specific document," he said.

Thanks Tony! Now we KNOW they're real!

[otohara]

19. Like We Expect Either One of Them To Ever Fess Up & Admit They Are LIARS

when pigs fly out my butt...

[snickersnee]

20. you really ought to go read the whole article

it's even worse than the excerpt would lead you to expect. blames the media for paying too much attention, and says that this was "nine months before" the war started, ignoring the previously-secret airwar escalation. ends off with a rendition of "9/11 changed everything".

if the emperor actually wore clothes, they would be tattered rags.

[sendero]

21. Instant Poll...

.... what is worth more?

1) Blair's denial

2) A bucket of warm spit

[Gregorian]

22. I did not rob that bank.

Why is it that if you kill someone, you go to jail. But if you are a politician, and you start a war that kills lots of people, you end up wealthy?

That was rhetorical.

It depends on what the definition of "kill" is. I can hear it now.

[tk2kewl]

24. Not only was it predeteremined, it had already begun. LIAR.

[Mokito]

26. See!

Nothing to see here, move along. The memos don't prove anything! Why? Because pood...err, Tony said so, so there! :sarcasm:

[Roland99]

29. Almost *two* months after their release? And when *'s #s are Crashing?

:rofl:


What a tool.

[Pachamama]

30. Hello UK!! Looks like your leader is a big fat LIAR too!

:hi:

[KLF44]

31. Blair Denies Memos Prove Iraq War Was Preset

Blair Denies Memos Prove Iraq War Was Preset
By PAISLEY DODDS, AP



LONDON (June 29) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday the ''Downing Street memos'' paint a distorted picture, and he insisted that the Iraq war was not predetermined by the United States.

''People say the decision was already taken. The decision was not already taken,'' he said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press.

Blair added he was ''a bit astonished'' at the intensive U.S. media coverage about the leaked memos, which actually were leaked minutes of a July 23, 2002, meeting between Blair and top government officials at his Downing Street office.

According to the minutes of the meeting, Sir Richard Dearlove, then chief of Britain's intelligence service, said the White House viewed military action against Saddam Hussein as inevitable following the Sept. 11 attacks



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[Rosco T.]

32. They are now confirmed as authentic.. denials by Bush/Blair are now spin

[deacon]

34. Right, they are authentic--and Bush and Blair are guilty n/t

[burrowowl]

36. Exactly!

Will the American People pick up on this?
I'm beginning to think so!

[deacon]

33. Bruuuuuuuk, Polly want a WMD....bruuuuk n/t

[daleo]

35. Memos written at the time are distorted?

But Blair's after the fact protestations are objective? Tell it to the judge, Blair.

[Fire Walk With Me]

40. Their Jedi mind tricks are falling rather flat, eh?

They're truly trying to spin both sides in two directions. You just can't keep that many plates spinning on sticks until one crashes to the ground, bringing the rest with it. Resoundingly.

[RobertSeattle]

37. And when I bought a six pack of beer it was not predetermined...

...I would drink it.

For the love of God would Bush/Blair just admit the obvious?

Back in late 2002, Bush probably could have gone in front of the American people and said, "'Mericans, I want to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam - I don't have really good reasons but I think in the long run it will make the US and the world safer". I bet 60% of the American people would have basically gone along basically saying, "Well OK, but do it right, get it over with, and get our troops back ASAP" But instead these guys are predisposed to deceive.

[Up2Late]

38. Again! Common Tony! let's try to save a shred of dignity

It's a bit late for that.:eyes:

[Sydnie]

39. That's not what you meant? Then show us all the memos you have

that were from that time period to now. Show us the memo where is WAS determined that it would be the course of action of choice. Show us the memos and the documents leading from that memo to the day you made these statements. Show us the memos from your legal department, when they told you that there was no legal justification, then show us the ones that came after as the "legal problems" were being "fixed".

Yeah, sure, we don't believe you now either poodle boy.