Who else had an article about DSM in their Sunday paper?

[LittleClarkie]

My newspaper, the Journal/Sentinel had the AP article on the 4th page. Who else, and where did your paper place it.

Mine is called "A dance of diplomacy, then war: Downing Street memos detail Bush's lobbying, Blair advisers' doubts"

I thought pg. 4 was pretty good.

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DOWNING_STREET_MEMOS?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-06-19-10-17-06

Memos Show British Fretting Over Iraq War

By THOMAS WAGNER
Associated Press Writer

LONDON (AP) -- When Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief foreign policy adviser dined with Condoleezza Rice six months after Sept. 11, the then-U.S. national security adviser didn't want to discuss Osama bin Laden or al-Qaida. She wanted to talk about "regime change" in Iraq, setting the stage for the U.S.-led invasion more than a year later.

President Bush wanted Blair's support, but British officials worried the White House was rushing to war, according to a series of leaked secret Downing Street memos that have renewed questions and debate about Washington's motives for ousting Saddam Hussein.

In one of the memos, British Foreign Office political director Peter Ricketts openly asks whether the Bush administration had a clear and compelling military reason for war.

"U.S. scrambling to establish a link between Iraq and al-Qaida is so far frankly unconvincing," Ricketts says in the memo. "For Iraq, `regime change' does not stack up. It sounds like a grudge between Bush and Saddam."

[fedupinBushcountry]

1. Mine had none

I was very disappointed, but did you know that gum tops the list of snacks for Americans, that made the front page, and also chocolate, who serves the best chocolate in Hampton roads. The other story was the base closings in Maine. Sad very sad.

By the way it is the Virginian Pilot.

[ClayZ]

2. Seattle Times: "Prewar Memos Prove Thorny"

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002340

WASHINGTON — George W. Bush asked voters last year to judge him as a war president, and the strategy worked. Yet as casualties mount in Iraq and as sunny administration statements are contradicted by events on the ground, the public's patience is being taxed.

These developments have emboldened grass-roots liberals to focus public attention on the so-called Downing Street Memo and seven others, leaked in London weeks ago, all of which raise questions about Bush's case for war.

Thursday, a dozen House Democrats held an unofficial hearing on the British government documents, hoping to persuade more Americans that, in Michigan Rep. John Conyers' words, at least 1,700 U.S. troops "have lost their lives for a lie."

Yet even as the political climate seems increasingly hospitable to anti-war talk, most Democratic leaders have remained mum on the British memos.

<snip>

Some political analysts said that while many Americans may not care to reopen the prewar debate, they might focus their growing ire on the postwar predicament. And the British memos also address postwar concerns.

Example: "A postwar occupation of Iraq could lead to a protracted and costly nation-building exercise. As already made clear, the U.S. military plans are virtually silent on this point."

All told, the political power of the memos — and the willingness of Democratic leaders to invoke them — will hinge on how the war goes.

In the words of Missouri-based political analyst Tim Lomperis, a former Army intelligence officer: "People are focused on results. If peace breaks out and there's a timetable for U.S. withdrawal, all will be forgiven. But if Iraq keeps unraveling, then all bets are off."

<snip>








:kick:

[LSdemocrat]

3. Today's St. Louis Post Dispatch devoted about a page in the front section

They also printed actual excerpts from the documents.

Unfortunately I can't find a link on their website.

[annabanana]

4. Newsday on Long Island had a pretty good one...n/t

[jalynn]

7. 2 articles

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/world/article/0,1406,KNS_351_3865858,00.html


http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/politics/article/0,1406,KNS_356_3861403,00.html


I was suprise there was anything.

[Pool Hall Ace]

5. Raleigh News&Observer mentioned DSM on the front page

but it was below the fold.

The golf tournament in Pinehurst is more important, you know.:eyes:

[etherealtruth]

6. Nothing in the Detroit News / Free Press ...

I can't find my glasses so I would love it if someone corrected me ...but, I don't think it will happen.

[ClayZ]

8. Lost Glasses.......?

I usually find mine on top of my head... heheheh

[etherealtruth]

10. Last time they "went missing" ...

...the kids put them on a snow man in the front yard.

Must admit: read your post and had to feel the top of my head.

[icehenge]

9. Tennessean had a front page column

continued onto page A2. It was one of the AP articles.
Shocked me.

If anyone in or around the Nashville area read the article and
would like to send a letter/email to the paper send me a private
message and I'll provide details. They NEED to hear a praise from
us and its optional to have your letter published in the paper if
you'd prefer.

[POAS]

11. The day after the Conyers hearing

The Akron Beacon Journal ran a front page story that took up most of the front page.

Above the fold was a 3 or 4 column picture of Conyers and the rest getting ready to march to the White House. A long article accompanied the picture, running below the fold and continued inside.

[A Brand New World]

12. Finally, here in West Central Ohio, the local paper, Springfield

News Sun had the exact same article on page A13. I was beginning to have my doubts that it would ever show up.I forget the exact title though, something like "Memos show Blair's doubts about war".

[KoKo]

13. NC here...BlockBUSTER front PAGER! All of it! And it helped that

Republican Walter Jones from our biggest Military District (Mr. Freedom Fries) came out that blew open the floodgate of info.

The article was from our HERO NEWS SERVICE: Knight-Ridder...PAGE One and MORE!

It was Beautiful to SEE! :toast:

[Mad_Dem_X]

14. Wilmington (DE) News Journal - front page

I almost had a heart attack! :wow:

[zalinda]

15. Syracuse Post Standard

Page 12 Huge pic of Blair and Bush shaking hands....Large headline Secret Memos Show Tangled Web.........it's a Knight-Ridder paper. Plus piece "British revealed concern about postwar Iraq", next to it.

zalinda

[icehenge]

16. Kick

[gratuitous]

17. Oregonian: "New memos reveal deep concern on Downing St."

Subhead: "For Iraq, 'regime change' does not stack up," wrote one British official. "It sounds like a grudge match between Bush and Saddam."

My prediction: Tuesday's letters to the editor will be full of screaming know-nothing letters debating what the meaning of "grudge match" is. Hilarious when you think about how many of the writers of those letters think pro wrestling is real.

[dannynyc]

18. Cleveland Plain Dealer

actually had a front page article - slightly above the fold!! The entire story was fairly long - I skimmed it, but didn't read it. IIRC, there was a rendering of one of the documents.

There was also a positive article in the editorial pages, also.

The lead article was about how the Ohio Repubican saga is getting more complex and inter=twined by the day.