SMOKING GUN? / THE OTHER (BETTER) GEORGE

So here it finally is -confirmation that what those of us on the left have been complaining about, and what was supported by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and former NSC guy Richard Clarke (who were dismissed as kooks by the Bushies) is absolutely true.

The "Downing Street Memo" should be the smoking gun that brings down the White House -like the Nixon Tapes. It will however be relegated to the dustbin of history as the ultimate proof that Americans have completely lost touch with the activities of their elected officials.

The memo proves that

1. the Bush Administration was planning to go to war with Iraq at least as as early as July of 2002 -Long before Colon Powell's grand opera before the UN.
2. They were "fitting the facts and intel to the war"
3. The US had no plan for after the war.

Now 89 members of Congress have asked Bush to explain the memo -but raise your hand if you honestly think it will change one thing...anyone? Anyone? Ok you over there with the Dave Matthews T-shirt put your hand down.

Apparently the Brits would be on board -but they understood that the legal ways to go to war were either direct threat, ultimatum, or UN sanction, and since there was no perceivable direct threat, and since neither Iraq nor the US had issued an ultimatum, they insisted that we go the UN route. They also insisted that the USA provide a fuller picture of their planning ---

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Sorry -uncontrollable laugh break

A fuller picture *snicker* of their pla- *snort* Ok (control yourself OP!)

Pla-nnning, *HEHE* before they committed troops.

So just as I and every other liberal have said since the words "Saddam" and "Iraq" were first confoundingly muttered by W and his handlers when we were retaliating at Al Q'aeda in Afghanistan, this war was manufactured out of whole cloth to line the pockets of the PNAC profiteers.

Of course once again the "liberal media" are all over this one and are shaking it by the neck like the watch dogs they ar-- oh, rats.

Well ok, at least Americans are informing themselves using the publicly available materials on this story and using their outrage at the deceit to...to...oh, hell.

Ever wonder when we'll be able to live in America again?

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In the same vein:

GOD BLESS GEORGE GALLOWAY!!!!

In case you haven't yet heard -George Galloway is a British politician who was called to testify before the Senate subcommittee on Homeland Security by Senator Norm Coleman (R- MN). Coleman apparently was psyched to be in the spotlight and was hoping to make a name for himself as the guy who finally gave it to the Oil For Food scandal people.

Coleman was all set to lambaste Galloway -but Galloway handed him his ass!! Truth can be such an aphrodisiac -I'm not gay but even I have to admit I got a little hot listening to that Scottish brogue nail the truth to Coleman's forehead!!

And predictably the only news source carrying a complete transcript of his testimony was the London Times -US sources have tightly edited versions interspersed with Coleman's afterward whining that Galloway's testimony isn't credible. Read it and judge for yourself. Or better yet -watch or listen! Of course the wingnuts are going to spin the bejesus out of this one and hope it dies a quiet death, which the "liberal media" will ensure it will.