Comments on: Another Damaging British Memo: Bush Made Up His Mind On Iraq Two Months Before Invasion http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:57:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Truth 2 Power Project » Downing Street II has arrived http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-493199 Truth 2 Power Project » Downing Street II has arrived Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:01:20 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-493199 [...] Think Progress has the wrap up which shows that long after Bush had decided to go to war, he repeated lied to the American public about. I’ve not made up our mind about military action. Hopefully, this can be done peacefully. [3/6/03] [...] [...] Think Progress has the wrap up which shows that long after Bush had decided to go to war, he repeated lied to the American public about. I’ve not made up our mind about military action. Hopefully, this can be done peacefully. [3/6/03] [...]

]]> By: norm http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-438170 norm Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:01:53 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-438170 ROTFL Of course Bush was going to take Saddamm on, and he was right to do so. It was the stated policy of the US since 1998 when Congress passed a resolution authored by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. <em>Iraq Liberation Act (P.L. 105-338, October 31, 1998)</em> <a href="http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraq-090602.htm" rel="nofollow"> </a> ROTFL
Of course Bush was going to take Saddamm on, and he was right to do so. It was the stated policy of the US since 1998 when Congress passed a resolution authored by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Iraq Liberation Act (P.L. 105-338, October 31, 1998)


]]> By: It’s Intuitively Obvious»Blog Archive » The dash to Irag … http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-438133 It’s Intuitively Obvious»Blog Archive » The dash to Irag … Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:23:45 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-438133 [...] The Independent confirms a report by the Guardian on a newly-revealed British memo. The memo claims that Bush made the decision to attack Iraq two months prior to the war. Furthermore, the memo states that Bush was thinking about baiting Iraq into a breach of UN resolutions by “flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colors.” … • • • [...] [...] The Independent confirms a report by the Guardian on a newly-revealed British memo. The memo claims that Bush made the decision to attack Iraq two months prior to the war. Furthermore, the memo states that Bush was thinking about baiting Iraq into a breach of UN resolutions by “flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colors.” … • • • [...]

]]> By: Think Progress » The Story of How Bush Went Into Iraq, As Told by the British http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-438115 Think Progress » The Story of How Bush Went Into Iraq, As Told by the British Sat, 04 Feb 2006 21:57:12 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-438115 [...] The Independent confirms a report by the Guardian on a newly-revealed British memo. The memo claims that Bush made the decision to attack Iraq two months prior to the war. Furthermore, the memo states that Bush was thinking about baiting Iraq into a breach of UN resolutions by “flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colors.” [...] [...] The Independent confirms a report by the Guardian on a newly-revealed British memo. The memo claims that Bush made the decision to attack Iraq two months prior to the war. Furthermore, the memo states that Bush was thinking about baiting Iraq into a breach of UN resolutions by “flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colors.” [...]

]]> By: Cyra Brown http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-438041 Cyra Brown Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:57:18 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-438041 #112- Bush&Co. inflated a hypothesis into a foregone conclusion, and invaded Iraq. Obviously dangerous. Left-leaning debate seems pretty harmless, in comparison. I think your "critical eye" is due for an exam. #112- Bush&Co. inflated a hypothesis into a foregone conclusion, and invaded Iraq. Obviously dangerous. Left-leaning debate seems pretty harmless, in comparison. I think your “critical eye” is due for an exam.

]]> By: susan http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-437854 susan Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:29:55 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-437854 Bush will NEVER be impeached, cos he will always stage another pearl harbour to ensure he doesnt. Im not a religious person at all but I do believe that Bish is the Antichrist!! Bush will NEVER be impeached, cos he will always stage another pearl harbour to ensure he doesnt.

Im not a religious person at all but I do believe that Bish is the Antichrist!!

]]> By: jethro http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-437080 jethro Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:15:10 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-437080 uh, he <em>didn't</em> get a second resolution and inspectors <em>didn't</em> find evidence of a weapons program and he <em>did</em> invade anyway. why would any one be surprised that he was planning in private to do what he did in fact do publically? how is this news? uh, he didn’t get a second resolution and inspectors didn’t find evidence of a weapons program and he did invade anyway.

why would any one be surprised that he was planning in private to do what he did in fact do publically?

how is this news?

]]> By: Tracy http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-436900 Tracy Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:00:45 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-436900 #134 "Oh I see, a person that was in the room with Bush and Blair is less credible than somebody that has researched something." Yes when one person interprets what someone else said with no other people to colaborate what he heard vs. multiple people saying the same thing then yes those people are more creditable that ONE person. #134

“Oh I see, a person that was in the room with Bush and Blair is less credible than somebody that has researched something.”

Yes when one person interprets what someone else said with no other people to colaborate what he heard vs. multiple people saying the same thing then yes those people are more creditable that ONE person.

]]> By: Jack http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-436881 Jack Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:42:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-436881 Read the Time magazine issue March 31, 2003. http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,31-03-2003,00.html http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1004567,00.html Read the Time magazine issue March 31, 2003.

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,31-03-2003,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1004567,00.html

]]> By: Clif http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-436728 Clif Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:46:41 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-436728 #168 Hey Brit you didn't read this morning's memo, DeLay is out Boehner is in , Delay's name is on the list like Abrarmoff, Lay, Scanlon, Skilling, Cunningham, we don't talk about them any more, don't want the libs to be able to point out the vicious lies and smear campaigns be waged against them by the radical liberal justice officials who are in league radical left to bring down out glorious leader BUSH. When you read this get back to me Karl has a new plan for spinning the hearings next week ...Later dude PS do not under ant circumstances let the moon-bats see this email, Karl got Cheney to classify it top secret just like the Katrina paperwork. #168 Hey Brit you didn’t read this morning’s memo, DeLay is out Boehner is in , Delay’s name is on the list like Abrarmoff, Lay, Scanlon, Skilling, Cunningham, we don’t talk about them any more, don’t want the libs to be able to point out the vicious lies and smear campaigns be waged against them by the radical liberal justice officials who are in league radical left to bring down out glorious leader BUSH. When you read this get back to me Karl has a new plan for spinning the hearings next week …Later dude PS do not under ant circumstances let the moon-bats see this email, Karl got Cheney to classify it top secret just like the Katrina paperwork.

]]> By: Brit_Spume http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-436690 Brit_Spume Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:00:26 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-436690 The media's role is to promote America's interests. And America's interests are best represented by fine upstanding republicans like Bush, Cheney and Tom Delay. Stick that in your blender and swirl it. The media’s role is to promote America’s interests. And America’s interests are best represented by fine upstanding republicans like Bush, Cheney and Tom Delay.

Stick that in your blender and swirl it.

]]> By: Wayne A. Schneider http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-436598 Wayne A. Schneider Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:51:12 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-436598 #128 Walt You mean I have to involve somebody else? Maybe that's what the problem's been. :) #128 Walt

You mean I have to involve somebody else? Maybe that’s what the problem’s been. :)

]]> By: Smedley http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-436570 Smedley Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:21:34 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-436570 <strong>149 NOW FOR IMPEACHING BLAIR YES YES GETTING THERE</strong>http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=29437&SESSION=875 149 NOW FOR IMPEACHING BLAIR YES YES GETTING THEREhttp://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=29437&SESSION=875

]]> By: CTPatriot http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-436532 CTPatriot Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:11:38 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-436532 #156 - Ah Greg, black is white, up is down, war is peace. You wingnuts never cease to amaze me with your unique ability to twist even the most obvious revelations in whatever way absolves Bush from any wrongdoing. "Mr Bush made it clear the US intended to invade whether or not there was a second resolution and even if UN inspectors found no evidence of a banned Iraqi weapons programme." There is truly only one way to read this, assuming you speak the same english that I do. And that reading is exactly what Thinkprogress concluded: "Bush Made Up His Mind On Iraq Two Months Before Invasion." #156 – Ah Greg, black is white, up is down, war is peace. You wingnuts never cease to amaze me with your unique ability to twist even the most obvious revelations in whatever way absolves Bush from any wrongdoing.

“Mr Bush made it clear the US intended to invade whether or not there was a second resolution and even if UN inspectors found no evidence of a banned Iraqi weapons programme.”

There is truly only one way to read this, assuming you speak the same english that I do. And that reading is exactly what Thinkprogress concluded: “Bush Made Up His Mind On Iraq Two Months Before Invasion.”

]]> By: Cafe Politico » http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-436521 Cafe Politico » Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:51:37 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-436521 [...] Uh, Oh. Another leaked British Memo the mainstream media can ignore. [...] [...] Uh, Oh. Another leaked British Memo the mainstream media can ignore. [...]

]]> By: Welfl http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-436364 Welfl Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:46:19 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-436364 This story was covered fairly thoroughly, if briefly, on "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann this evening. He told the story verbatim and didn't equivocate. If it weren't for Keith, very little truth would ever make it into the mainstream media. This story was covered fairly thoroughly, if briefly, on “Countdown” with Keith Olbermann this evening. He told the story verbatim and didn’t equivocate. If it weren’t for Keith, very little truth would ever make it into the mainstream media.

]]> By: Jay Randal http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-436342 Jay Randal Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:20:45 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-436342 Tony Blair is George Bush's British poodle dog > lol. Blair will do anything to please his Brokeback Mountain lover Bush > lol. Tony Blair is George Bush’s British poodle dog > lol.

Blair will do anything to please his Brokeback Mountain lover Bush > lol.

]]> By: Marie http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-436315 Marie Fri, 03 Feb 2006 04:40:24 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-436315 British press is also reporting a leaked memo from a meeting with Bush and Blair. Bush and Blair were dismayed that although they believed Saddam was in violation of United Nations resolutions, there was little hard evidence to prove it. So Bush planned to send a U2 plane along with fighters painted in UN colors and if Saddam fired at them, they would have proof that he broke resolutions and justify invasion. But if that failed, Bush planned to invade anyway, and set a date of March 10th. The actual date was 3/20. Bush also believed there would be very little internecine warfare between ethnic and religius factions. British press is also reporting a leaked memo from a meeting with Bush and Blair. Bush and Blair were dismayed that although they believed Saddam was in violation of United Nations resolutions, there was little hard evidence to prove it. So Bush planned to send a U2 plane along with fighters painted in UN colors and if Saddam fired at them, they would have proof that he broke resolutions and justify invasion. But if that failed, Bush planned to invade anyway, and set a date of March 10th. The actual date was 3/20. Bush also believed there would be very little internecine warfare between ethnic and religius factions.

]]> By: Greg http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-436279 Greg Fri, 03 Feb 2006 03:46:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-436279 No, I would believe it is another desperate attempt to twist the facts. No, I would believe it is another desperate attempt to twist the facts.

]]> By: Constant http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/comment-page-4/#comment-436273 Constant Fri, 03 Feb 2006 03:37:53 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/02/another-british-memo/#comment-436273 Although interesting, we do not see how this is "new" in terms of probative evidence to further tip the scale: The President has already violated the law. We judge the information is timed to dilute attention for the NSA's Constitutianal issues. Proceed with caution; be judicious in applying your time/resources to what appears to be a red herring. More info at link under name: [ http://tinyurl.com/8f7re ] Although interesting, we do not see how this is “new” in terms of probative evidence to further tip the scale: The President has already violated the law. We judge the information is timed to dilute attention for the NSA’s Constitutianal issues. Proceed with caution; be judicious in applying your time/resources to what appears to be a red herring. More info at link under name: [ http://tinyurl.com/8f7re ]

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