Rising Hegemon
So little attention, as I've complained, as many more prominant have complained, is paid to the "Smoking Gun" memo on the Bush Administration's plans to go to war and cherry-pick evidence for the purpose of going to war. In other words, mislead the American Public, thinking (so far correctly) that they could get away with it.
They probably will, but it won't be Knight-Ridder's fault, who today confirm, from the American-side the contents:
A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.
The document, which summarizes a July 23, 2002, meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair with his top security advisers, reports on a visit to Washington by the head of Britain's MI-6 intelligence service.
The visit took place while the Bush administration was still declaring to the American public that no decision had been made to go to war.
"There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable," the MI-6 chief said at the meeting, according to the memo. "Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD," weapons of mass destruction.
The memo said "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
No weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in March 2003.
The White House has repeatedly denied accusations made by several top foreign officials that it manipulated intelligence estimates to justify an invasion of Iraq.
It has instead pointed to the conclusions of two studies, one by the Senate Intelligence Committee and one by a presidentially appointed panel, that cite serious failures by the CIA and other agencies in judging Saddam's weapons programs.
The principal U.S. intelligence analysis, called a National Intelligence Estimate, wasn't completed until October 2002, well after the United States and United Kingdom had apparently decided military force should be used to overthrow Saddam's regime.
The newly disclosed memo, which was first reported by the Sunday Times of London, hasn't been disavowed by the British government. A spokesman for the British Embassy in Washington referred queries to another official, who didn't return calls for comment on Thursday.
A former senior U.S. official called it "an absolutely accurate description of what transpired" during the senior British intelligence officer's visit to Washington. He spoke on condition of anonymity. *
A White House official said the administration wouldn't comment on leaked British documents.
In July 2002, and well afterward, top Bush administration foreign policy advisers were insisting that "there are no plans to attack Iraq on the president's desk."
MY FELLOW AMERICANS,
Contrary to your expectations, you are not going to get a blowjob from Paula Abdul (well most of you won't); nor will the Runaway Bride leave her fiance to knock on the door of your home (or efficiency apartment) and ask if she can give you a handjob to go. Orlando Bloom doesn't think of you at all, other than as some unattractive, chubby hobbit-like creature, he'll not be depositing any love juice.
Michael Jackson is unlikely to want to sleep with your sorry, mature (physically at least) ass.
Unless you are hispanic, Lou Dobbs is unlikely to give a shit about you, and if you are hispanic, you'll wish he wouldn't.
Nancy Grace only looks at you as a potential murderer, or victim. You will not have a chance to make her eyes bug-out at you in lustful longing.
Katie Couric is not going to ask you to probe her well-compensated rectum.
Britney Spears's standards are about right for you, but she's already found her white trash dreamdud.
Unless you have some of those lovely blue babies, Rush Limbaugh will have nothing to do with you.
Tupac is still dead...do you hear me? D-E-A-D.
George Bush however:
Can still send your pathetic fleshpod off to die in a nation neither you, nor he, can spell;
He can ruin what little pathetic income you will earn as a retiree;
He can and has made sure that you will not be able to ever get out under the thumb of "Mibbynina", what you call MBNA.
He can make sure that that one night stand you had leads to a child who you will equally resent and verbally abuse;
So everyonce in a while, would it really hurt you to try giving a shit?
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