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Barad Simith
Posted by Barad Simith in Latest Breaking News
Thu Jun 16th 2005, 07:18 PM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...

Democrat Urges Inquiry on Bush, Iraq
By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, June 16, 2005
(06-16) 17:01 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP)

Amid new questions about President Bush's drive to topple Saddam Hussein, several House Democrats urged lawmakers on Thursday to conduct an official inquiry to determine whether the president intentionally misled Congress.

At a public forum where the word "impeachment" loomed large, Exhibit A was the so-called Downing Street memo, a prewar document leaked from inside the British government to The Sunday Times of London a month and a half ago. Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, organized the event.

Recounting a meeting of Prime Minister Tony Blair's national security team, the memo says the Bush administration believed that war was inevitable and was determined to use intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the ouster of Saddam.

"The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy," one of the participants was quoted as saying at the meeting, which took place just after British officials returned from Washington.

Also mentions the signatures, Wilson and Plame, impeachment, and includes a great quote from John Bonifaz (lawyer and co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org) at the end.
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