Bush Lies - American Soldiers Die - American Media afraid to cover it

What troubles me most about the Downing Street Memo is that it clearly indicates the American Public was manipulated into going to war with Iraq.

Bill Clinton was subjected to intense scrutiny over a tryst with Monica Lewinski which led to a vote on impeachment. What he did was wrong.

For those of you who doubt that George Bush's political machine lacks power, ask yourself this: Why would President Clinton's lying to Congress about receiving fellatio while in the Oval Office be such a scandal while the lie this current President crafted in his presentation to secure Congress' approval for going to war has not?

When did America's salaciousness overtake its repugnance for death and mayhem? Where is the outrage and repulsion over lying that ends up in a huge national deficit, unneccessary destruction of lives and our reputation in the world?

President Bush's lying to Congress about Weapons of Mass Destruction has led to 12,762 wounded and dead US Soldiers and conservative estimates account for 12,000 innocent Iraqi civilians dead. The cost of this war is above 175 billion dollars. The numbers are climbing daily with no end in sight.

There is no stability in the Mid-East and President Bush is starting to sound like Herbert Hoover who denied that America was in a Great Depression. Posterity has shown President Hoover was mistaken - History will prove President Bush on he other hand, is a liar. America's reputation in the world is nothing more than lying bully. a We have damaged our reputation among nations of the world by following the lies of a small group of people who manipulated American emotions. How many more people must die for this lie? How much more damage must our reputation incur around the world before they decide to rally against us? Why are we beginning to look like Hitler's Third Reich to the rest of the world? Why are we, as a nation under the spell of this liar's paradox?

It would be in every American Citizen's best interest to read - and sign - this petition which will be forwarded to the Whitehouse along with the tens of thousands of signatures already collected.

Please read the memo and decide for yourself. By clicking on the title of this post you will be directed to Senator Conyers web site. You read. You decide.

Ignore it and you can kiss your Country goodbye.

Letter to Pres Bush Concerning the "Downing Street Minutes"

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The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the United States of America
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005

Dear Mr. President:

We the undersigned write because of our concern regarding recent disclosures of a Downing Street Memo in the London Times, comprising the minutes of a meeting of Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers. These minutes indicate that the United States and Great Britain agreed, by the summer of 2002, to attack Iraq, well before the invasion and before you even sought Congressional authority to engage in military action, and that U.S. officials were deliberately manipulating intelligence to justify the war.

Among other things, the British government document quotes a high-ranking British official as stating that by July, 2002, Bush had made up his mind to take military action. Yet, a month later, you stated you were still willing to "look at all options" and that there was "no timetable" for war. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, flatly stated that "[t]he president has made no such determination that we should go to war with Iraq."

In addition, the origins of the false contention that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction remain a serious and lingering question about the lead up to the war. There is an ongoing debate about whether this was the result of a "massive intelligence failure," in other words a mistake, or the result of intentional and deliberate manipulation of intelligence to justify the case for war. The memo appears to resolve that debate as well, quoting the head of British intelligence as indicating that in the United States "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

As a result of these concerns, we would ask that you respond to the following questions:
1)Do you or anyone in your administration dispute the accuracy of the leaked document?
2) Were arrangements being made, including the recruitment of allies, before you sought Congressional authorization to go to war? Did you or anyone in your Administration obtain Britain's commitment to invade prior to this time?
3) Was there an effort to create an ultimatum about weapons inspectors in order to help with the justification for the war as the minutes indicate?
4) At what point in time did you and Prime Minister Blair first agree it was necessary to invade Iraq?
5) Was there a coordinated effort with the U.S. intelligence community and/or British officials to "fix" the intelligence and facts around the policy as the leaked document states?

These are the same questions 89 Members of Congress, led by Rep. John Conyers, Jr., submitted to you on May 5, 2005. As citizens and taxpayers, we believe it is imperative that our people be able to trust our government and our commander in chief when you make representations and statements regarding our nation engaging in war. As a result, we would ask that you publicly respond to these questions as promptly as possible.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Sincerely

The following letter put forth by US Congressman, Rep. John Conyers speaks far more eloquently than anything I can write about this topic.

God bless Rep. Conyers and the other 88 Congressman for their courage and patriotism - for not letting this disgusting lie go by the wayside.

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