Bobby Eberle says 'Downing Street' Memo Has Left Wingers Drooling

[BigBearJohn]

Well -- I guess we know what the GOP is going to hit us with.

If there's one thing left wingers love, it's a good, old-fashioned conspiracy. Give them a small nibble of a "claim" of wrong doing against the current White House, conservatives, or Republicans, and the left wing fringe will pounce into action. Facts? Data? Evidence? Those items are simply minor inconveniences to their "analysis" of right wing efforts to rule the world, steal elections, plant White House reporters, or a host of other perceived dirty deeds.

Like chum in a pool of sharks, the left has been stirred into a frenzy over the so-called "Downing Street" memo. This document, written by a British foreign policy official, chronicles a meeting among British officials including Prime Minister Tony Blair. The memo conveys a sense of the direction America was heading in regard to dealing with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, prior to the commencement of military operations. The memo contains a passage that the left is now calling the "smoking gun" that they say shows President Bush purposely manipulated intelligence information to build the case for war. Once again, the left wing zealots are putting facts and evidence aside and letting their conspiracy theory fears run wild.

More if you can stomach it: http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/bobby/2005/bobby_06131.shtml

[Lucky Luciano]

1. I read enough....

I definitely cannot stomach another word of that swill.

[blm]

2. Hey Bob - Over a dozen CIA analysts said intel books were being cooked

as far back as Oct 2002 (KRT report by Landay and Strobel) and they said it was the White House doing the cooking. You want to go on record as saying all those analysts were lying, Bobby boy?

[Nite Owl]

3. The conspiracy part is wrong

it isn't us who has the ct, we are uncovering THEIR conspiracy to take us to war. They conspired to blame Iraq for 9-11 and they planned an illegal war.

[EST]

4. This is wonderful!

The kernel of truth, in whatever vehicle, is being repeated in the very heart of the empire...

[Postman]

5. No one has denied the facts of the memo.

Why would someone write on paper "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" if not meant to manipulate the facts?

Why wouldn't the policy be fixed around the facts and intelligence?

Because the facts, as they were, didn't fit the agenda (policy) of the neo-con PNAC criminals.

"fixed around" is a term indicating cherry-picking intelligence. Can you say (OSP) Office of Special Plans?

[babylonsister]

6. It's interesting that they're even addressing this.

GOOD! Perhaps if they look at the DSM long enough, they'll see they were also duped.