WP: The Second Memo

[tex-wyo-dem]

A second British memo from 2002 emerged over the weekend chronicling how senior officials there saw the Bush administration as bent on war in Iraq and inattentive to postwar consequences.

Just last week, the MSM (that's mainstream media) turned its attention to the first DSM (that's Downing Street Memo) in earnest. (See my June 8 column for background.)

The new memo (can we call it DSM-II?) comes at a particularly bad time for Bush, as polls show that public sentiment is turning sharply against the war.

Whether you read the memos as a reminder of how the Bush administration was relentless in its drive to confront Saddam Hussein -- or whether you read them as evidence of cynical, deliberate and misguided manipulation -- the White House would much rather you weren't thinking about Iraq at all this week--it is focusing public attention on domestic issues instead.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/06/13/BL2005061300982.html

[helderheid]

1. again all they mention

is a lack of post war plan. :wtf:

[Toots]

3. Post War.....Duhhh

War was being planned but not Post War. When you are talking about Post war planning you are beyond the War planning part. It is the period on the sentence.

[kansasblue]

2. The WP article was front page Sunday.

It seemed like old times again for the WP.