The Low-Down on Downing Street

Erinberry brought to my attention a second memo damning again Pennsylvania Avenue and Downing Street's famed residents' plans to create reasons to invade Iraq. Please visit her website for interesting discourse on the story.

I'm going to go off on a tangent (surprise!) about all of this and note that the information about the wool being pulled over America's eyes is coming from yet again a British news source. The should-be-infamous Downing Street Memo was first reported about by the London Sunday Times this May. Yet, it wasn't brought out in American media circles until last week, when a Reuters (UK) reporter dared to ask a question about the Downing Street Memo at a joint press conference with Bush and Blair. And now, for the third time, a British news source, the Sunday Times, reports about a briefing paper written in 2002 (we invaded Iraq in March of 2003) that discusses the need to make an illegal war look legal...

"...The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was “necessary to create the conditions” which would make it legal..."

Now, stop. I know some of you are thinking, "Well, yeah, of course, these are British documents, the British are going to find out about them and report." Ok, I can see that line of logic, but where are the American press when they ARE reported on?

Ummm, a month after the first memo was reported about in the London Sunday Times, the US Press is still ignoring it until a British reporter "coups" them at a press conference. Hard to really call it a coup, since it was old world news by then. Now, this latest paper is published, but all I find in mainstream American news about anything related to pre-war planning is a memo about how the US had no viable post-war plan. No duh! I linked to the Yahoo story, from The Washington Post. I also reviewed CNN, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, and just for kicks Fox News and the Colorado Springs Gazette.

Of course, there are lots of other stories that need to be reported. The Jackson trial, runaway brides, and the President's ipod selections. But we're talking about treasonous behavior (or should I say behaviour) by our Commander in Chief. Sorry, Jacko fans, but I think that's more important than what Mr. One Glove will wear to his verdict.

Ironic how the new Thomas Paines of the day are now British.