THE MEMOS ARE AUTHENTIC!
I hate to break it to the rightwing wackos and the Rigtwing Lie Machine, but according to Newsweek:
“Two senior British government officials today acknowledged as authentic a series of 2002 pre-Iraq war memosstating that Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program was “effectively frozen” and that there was “no recent evidence” of Iraqi ties to international terrorism—private conclusions that contradicted two key pillars of the Bush administration’s public case for the invasion in March 2003.”
Again, circulate this as WIDELY as possible. Before the dumbass mainstream media starts buying the Rightwing Lie Machine’s BS again.
June 20th, 2005 at 8:50 am
I had heard that these were not actually memos but minutes from a meeting. The important difference being that minutes are admisable in a court of law.
June 20th, 2005 at 8:54 am
Some were memos. Some were meeting minutes. There are 7 different documents in all.
June 20th, 2005 at 9:05 am
The issues presented in these documents are prima facie evidence of high crimes, and any question of their authenticity needs to be addressed with alacrity. I will post your link as well as the Newseek link on my site. I got here from the Agonist, and I shall parenthetically link to the Newsweek article in any comments I may offer at various blogs today and as long as necessary. Thanks for your perspicacious attention to the relevant issues at hand.
June 20th, 2005 at 10:14 am
Wingnuts: please curl into the fetal position, close your eyes, and pretend the world doesn't exist
I have reconciled myself to the fact that some conservative Minnesota blogs are run by dishonest hacks by realizing that the fault lies not with Minnesota, but with dishonest conservative hacks. This is a great relief in that I really didn't want …
June 20th, 2005 at 11:04 am
What I love is the Captain’s Quarters’s hairsplitting distinction between a “fake” and a “fraud”, and his argument that the former term applies to the actual copies of the memos that have been made public, because they were not the originals but re-typed copies. That sophistry allows him to yell “fake” — which is all that the right-wing will hear — without actually denying the undeniable validity of the text.
June 20th, 2005 at 5:37 pm
Downing Street Minutes are authentic
There has been very little doubt that the Downing Street Minutes and other memos obtained by the Sunday Times are authentic. Even when directly asked about the memos, neither President Bush nor Tony Blair claimed that the memos were forgeries or otherwise inauthentic; instead …