http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/06/downing-street-memo.htmlThe Downing Street Memo
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There is not a snowball's chance in hell that Bush will be impeached over this issue. The Republicans control everything: the Executive, both Houses of Congress, the Judiciary, and the Media. They have demonstrated over and over again that they only care about the retention of power. The only possible chance of impeachment is if the Democrats were to gain control of the Senate, something that cannot possibly happen as the same crooked voting system is still (!!!) in place. The only reason for making a big deal out of the lies over Iraq is to attempt to stop the current campaigns for attacks on Syria and Iran, campaigns clearly based on exactly the same fundamental lies being spread by the Bush Administration and its friends.
The irony of this material coming out at the same time that Deep Throat is supposedly outed has been noted by some people. The American political system, based on the separation and balancing of powers, is supposed to have been sorely tested by Watergate, but met the test. Not so. Not all power was held by one party at the time of Watergate. The press was more diverse, there were moderate judges, there were moderate Republicans, there were Democrats with spines, and the voting system was not entirely crooked. When all these things are missing, and all the power vests in one extreme group, it is impossible to distinguish the United States, with all its meticulously crafted and balanced government, from an extreme right-wing dictatorship.
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Conspiracy theorists have a rough time because we never have any evidence. Of course, the reason we never have any evidence is that they hide it. There are similar minutes of meetings regarding the First World War that we're still not allowed to see. The CIA battles tooth and nail over material from fifty years ago. The only reason this stuff came out has to do with the extremely unusual occurrence that a nominally 'progressive' government participated in a transatlantic series of lies in order to fool people into an illegal war, and then found itself in an election where this fact could be used against it.
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Another amusing argument made by American newspapers is that they really wanted to cover the issue, but couldn't because the Associated Press hadn't written about it. Really! News doesn't exist in the United States unless and until the Associated Press covers it. The Apocalypse could be occurring, with molten lava falling from the sky and everyone's hair on fire, and the entire American press would sit huddled around their computers waiting on the story until the Associated Press deemed it to be news by mentioning it. This is the most pathetic of all the 'dog ate my Downing Street Memo' excuses. It tells you a lot about who you need to control - just one company! - in order to control the entire scope of the news in the United States.
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