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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 10:07 PM
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Bush policies blocked as US mood on Iraq sours--from The Independent-UK
Edited on Thu Jun-16-05 10:28 PM by Douglas Carpenter
Bush policies blocked as US mood on Iraq sours
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
17 June 2005

"As American and Iraqi casualties on the ground mount relentlessly, President George Bush is in growing political trouble, with Republicans as well as Democrats questioning his handling of a war that has never been less popular here.

In the most visible protest, the veteran Democratic congressman John Conyers organised a forum on the so-called "Downing Street Memo", the July 2002 British Government document indicating that the Bush administration had already made up its mind to invade Iraq, and that intelligence was being "fixed" to fit that policy.

Six weeks after it was leaked in the British press, the memo has belatedly become a hot topic in Washington. Mr Conyers was to present a petition from more than 100 of his Democratic colleagues in the House, signed by 500,000 people, demanding that Mr Bush explain" himself

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=647371

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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 10:08 PM
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1. Thanks for the link, but it's
David Corn.
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mirandapriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 10:22 PM
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4. Here's Another that needs DU'ing
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BayouBengal07 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 10:09 PM
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2. There's a typo
It says the DSM minutes were from a meeting on July 22, 2003.
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bilgewaterbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 10:44 PM
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5. Check this. article out
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 10:09 PM
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3. good article
the Blairites - love it.
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