Last month the Times of London published a “smoking gun” memo on President Bush’s lies leading up to the Iraq war. Six months before the invasion the administration admitted to British officials that, contrary to what the American public was told, the White House was determined to go to war and was “fixing” intelligence on WMDs to justify the move. This memo to the British Prime Minister has been front page news for the last month in the rest of the world but the US networks have hardly made a peep about a damning piece of eviedence which directly PROVES not only that Bush had decided to invade Iraq no matter, that Bush was actively lying to the American people about both his plans for war and his justifications for war, and lastly that the administration was actively engaged in falsifying intelligence reports in order excuse Bush's war.
This is damn stuff and the secret memo comes from Bush's closest friend and only real military ally for the Iraq war. The rest of the world has this as big news but this memo has been either ignored or buried in the back pages by the US media. What gives? One would expect written proof that the President is a lying sack of dog crap would be front page news. Luckily, a few reporters are finally beginning to do their job.
The San Francisco Chronicle continues to prove that it is one of the last newspapers in the country which will dig up its own original stories instead of just running prepackaged stories off of the wire. Yesterday it ran an article about the Downing Street Memo and Bush's lies.
CNN's "Newsnight With Aaron Brown" spent most of last Thursday's show discussing the memo and emphasing primarily the lack of response stateside compared to the uproar abroad, as well as the potential explosiveness of it's contents.
Ironically, the lead report of the evening was one concerning the "fixing of the facts" by senior White House aids on Global Warming, which has lead to the resignation of senior members of the White House's Council on Environmental Policy.
Could this "fact fixing" be the indication of a pattern?
This is damn stuff and the secret memo comes from Bush's closest friend and only real military ally for the Iraq war. The rest of the world has this as big news but this memo has been either ignored or buried in the back pages by the US media. What gives? One would expect written proof that the President is a lying sack of dog crap would be front page news. Luckily, a few reporters are finally beginning to do their job.
The San Francisco Chronicle continues to prove that it is one of the last newspapers in the country which will dig up its own original stories instead of just running prepackaged stories off of the wire. Yesterday it ran an article about the Downing Street Memo and Bush's lies.

CNN's "Newsnight With Aaron Brown" spent most of last Thursday's show discussing the memo and emphasing primarily the lack of response stateside compared to the uproar abroad, as well as the potential explosiveness of it's contents.
Ironically, the lead report of the evening was one concerning the "fixing of the facts" by senior White House aids on Global Warming, which has lead to the resignation of senior members of the White House's Council on Environmental Policy.
Could this "fact fixing" be the indication of a pattern?
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