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| Kerry Discovers Downing Street Memo |
| 2005-06-20 |
| The Downing Street memo has a new fan — Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. — who recently said that the memo was a "stunning, unbelievably simple and understandable statement of the truth and a profoundly important document." The problem for Kerry, however, is that there is another document that contradicts his view, a document that the defeated Democratic presidential candidate ought to remember. No, I am not talking about the other official British documents disclosed since Kerry made that statement, although they do show just how silly it was for people to interpret the first memo — which contained meeting minutes — the way they did. So now, back to Kerry, who had virtually the same access to U.S. intelligence as Bush himself and who surely examined the evidence before voting to give Bush the authority to go to war. His views on WMD are contained in a record of Senate debate in which he referred to Saddam "sitting in Baghdad with an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction" and asked: "In the wake of Sept. 11, who among us can say with any certainty to anybody that the weapons might not be used against our troops or against allies in the region? Who can say that this master of miscalculation will not develop a weapon of mass destruction even greater, a nuclear weapon ...?" Pretty good argument. Important document. Bloggers, where are you? |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #3 Kerry is going to sign letters releasing the entire fiasco surrounding the DSM right after he releases his FULL military and medical records. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-06-20 16:43 |
| #2 good!! Kerry's on it. Bush must be relieved!! Go for it, Senator. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-06-20 13:11 |
| #1 Two other documents this dimwit should familiarize himself with: the text of President Bill Clinton's February 17, 1998 address to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the text of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. This idiotic "Bush Lied, People Died" crap has gone far enough: maybe it's time to declare the entire Democratic Party leadership, and the Democratic members of the House and Senate, as enemy combatants and treat them accordingly. Send them all to Gitmo, and torment them by flushing their copies of The Nation. Filthy, treasonous bastards. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-06-20 12:59 |