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May 31, 2005

Big Brass Alliance

Our left sidebar has a new addition. It's a logo with a link to the Big Brass Alliance. This group of blogs is in support of a formal inquiry into whether or not President Bush has commited impeachable offenses in the lead up to the Iraq War.

This comes in light of the Downing Street Memo, a memo to British Prime Minister Tony Blair stating that intelligence about Iraq was being shaped to support a policy of invading Iraq. According to this memo, the Bush Administration was cherrypicking and forcing intelligence that would lead us to war with Iraq.

After Downing Street is the main clearinghouse for information on this topic and is dedicated to urging Congress to conduct an investigation.

Juan Cole's stunning piece in Salon Magazine offers up specifics as well:

"Astonishingly, the Bush administration almost took the United States to war against Iraq in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11. We know about this episode from the public account of Sir Christopher Meyer, then the U.K. ambassador in Washington. Meyer reported that in the two weeks after Sept. 11, the Bush national security team argued back and forth over whether to attack Iraq or Afghanistan. It appears from his account that Bush was leaning toward the Iraq option.

So there was a distinct possibility we weren't going to go after Al Qaida in Afghanistan at all. All along the focus was Iraq. Just as Richard Clarke said. Just as Paul O'Neil said. And now it's apparent that Bush and his people pushed the intelligence community to give them information that would lead to war with Iraq.

Meyer contends in fact that the British dissuaded Bush from ignoring Afghanistan and Al Qaida and going directly into Iraq.

All of this information, if true, is a high crime against the citizens of the United States. It must be investigated.

Personally I find it practically impossible that a Republican Congress would dare investigate this President. In fact Congress has so abdicated it's powers to the Executive and it's leadership so steeped in corruption that it lacks the courage and the will to undertake such an investigation of the current regime. Even with immense pressure from the electorate, their arrogance will remain and they will not conduct an investigation.

But good citizens who love their country will continue to remain vigilant and attempt to hold these individuals accountable for their lawlessness.

Posted by Carla at May 31, 2005 06:54 AM