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Demand President Bush Respond to Inquiry About 2002 Meetings Discussing Pretext for War
Dennis Kucinich and more than 90 other Members of Congress signed a letter to President Bush written by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Ranking Minority Member of the House Judiciary Committee, seeking answers to troubling questions raised by the leaked minutes of a U.S./U.K. meeting in 2002. According to the minutes of this meeting, published on May 1 by the London Times and now commonly known as the Downing Street Minutes (or, incorrectly, the Downing Street Memo), U.S. and U.K. officials met months before Congress was consulted about going to war and discussed creating a pretext for the invasion of Iraq. The minutes include the following quote about an earlier meeting between the head of British Military Intelligence and the Bush Administration:
"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."
We are all being asked to sign a letter similar to the one the Members of Congress sent. Somewhere around 100,000 signatures already have been collected and Rep. Conyers has announced an updated goal of 250,000. Sign the letter at http://www.johnconyers.com. The letters ask President Bush to answer the following questions:
Do you or anyone in your administration dispute the accuracy of the leaked document?
Were arrangements being made, including the recruitment of allies, before you sought Congressional authorization to go to war? Did you or anyone in your Administration obtain Britain's commitment to invade prior to this time?
Was there an effort to create an ultimatum about weapons inspectors in order to help with the justification for the war as the minutes indicate?
At what point in time did you and Prime Minister Blair first agree it was necessary to invade Iraq?
Was there a coordinated effort with the U.S. intelligence community and/or British officials to "fix" the intelligence and facts around the policy as the leaked document states?
SIGN THE LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH Demand President Bush Respond to Inquiry About 2002 Meetings Discussing Pretext for War
Dennis Kucinich and more than 90 other Members of Congress signed a letter to President Bush written by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Ranking Minority Member of the House Judiciary Committee, seeking answers to troubling questions raised by the leaked minutes of a U.S./U.K. meeting in 2002. According to the minutes of this meeting, published on May 1 by the London Times and now commonly known as the Downing Street Minutes (or, incorrectly, the Downing Street Memo), U.S. and U.K. officials met months before Congress was consulted about going to war and discussed creating a pretext for the invasion of Iraq. The minutes include the following quote about an earlier meeting between the head of British Military Intelligence and the Bush Administration:
"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."
We are all being asked to sign a letter similar to the one the Members of Congress sent. Somewhere around 100,000 signatures already have been collected and Rep. Conyers has announced an updated goal of 250,000. Sign the letter at http://www.johnconyers.com. The letters ask President Bush to answer the following questions:
Do you or anyone in your administration dispute the accuracy of the leaked document?
Were arrangements being made, including the recruitment of allies, before you sought Congressional authorization to go to war? Did you or anyone in your Administration obtain Britain's commitment to invade prior to this time?
Was there an effort to create an ultimatum about weapons inspectors in order to help with the justification for the war as the minutes indicate?
At what point in time did you and Prime Minister Blair first agree it was necessary to invade Iraq?
Was there a coordinated effort with the U.S. intelligence community and/or British officials to "fix" the intelligence and facts around the policy as the leaked document states?
SIGN THE LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH Demand President Bush Respond to Inquiry About 2002 Meetings Discussing Pretext for War
Dennis Kucinich and more than 90 other Members of Congress signed a letter to President Bush written by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Ranking Minority Member of the House Judiciary Committee, seeking answers to troubling questions raised by the leaked minutes of a U.S./U.K. meeting in 2002. According to the minutes of this meeting, published on May 1 by the London Times and now commonly known as the Downing Street Minutes (or, incorrectly, the Downing Street Memo), U.S. and U.K. officials met months before Congress was consulted about going to war and discussed creating a pretext for the invasion of Iraq. The minutes include the following quote about an earlier meeting between the head of British Military Intelligence and the Bush Administration:
"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."
We are all being asked to sign a letter similar to the one the Members of Congress sent. Somewhere around 100,000 signatures already have been collected and Rep. Conyers has announced an updated goal of 250,000. Sign the letter at http://www.johnconyers.com. The letters ask President Bush to answer the following questions:
Do you or anyone in your administration dispute the accuracy of the leaked document?
Were arrangements being made, including the recruitment of allies, before you sought Congressional authorization to go to war? Did you or anyone in your Administration obtain Britain's commitment to invade prior to this time?
Was there an effort to create an ultimatum about weapons inspectors in order to help with the justification for the war as the minutes indicate?
At what point in time did you and Prime Minister Blair first agree it was necessary to invade Iraq?
Was there a coordinated effort with the U.S. intelligence community and/or British officials to "fix" the intelligence and facts around the policy as the leaked document states?
SIGN THE LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH http://www.johnconyers.com/
READ REPUBLICAN CHAIR KEN MEHLMAN'S MEET THE PRESS INTERVIEW AT AFTERDOWNINGSTREET.ORG
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