Posted on 06/02/2005 9:37:29 PM PDT by kromike
Kerry Touts Bush Impeachment Memo
Failed presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that he intends to confront Congress with a document touted by critics of President Bush as evidence that he committed impeachable crimes by falsifying evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"When I go back (to Washington) on Monday, I am going to raise the issue," Kerry said, referring to the Downing Street Memo in an interview with Massachusetts' Standard Times newspaper.
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"I think it's a stunning, unbelievably simple and understandable statement of the truth and a profoundly important document that raises stunning issues here at home," the top Democrat added. The Downing Street Memo, first reported on May 1 by the London Times, was drafted by a Matthew Rycroft, a foreign policy aide to Prime Minister Tony Blair. It is said to be minutes of a July 2002 meeting where Blair allegedly admitted that the Bush administration "fixed" Iraq intelligence to manufacture a rationale for war.
Citing the Downing Street Memo, former presidential candidate Ralph Nader called for an impeachment investigation on Tuesday in an op-ed piece published by the Boston Globe.
"It is time for Congress to investigate the illegal Iraq war as we move toward the third year of the endless quagmire that many security experts believe jeopardizes US safety by recruiting and training more terrorists," wrote Nader with co-author Kevin Zeese. "A Resolution of Impeachment would be a first step."
The British memo, however, contains no quotes from either Bush or Blair, and is notably slim on evidence implicating Bush in a WMD cover-up.
Though largely ignored in the U.S. outside of rabid anti-Bush web sites like MichaelMoore.com, the Downing Street Memo won Sen. Kerry's endorsement in the Standard Times interview:
"It's amazing to me," the top Democrat said, "the way it escaped major media discussion. It's not being missed on the Internet, I can tell you that."
Boy Kerry is so bitter for losing the election. What a loser!
By all means, Kerry, polarize the middle-road conservative Americans even more thoroughly against the democratic party ... You know, even if I were a bleeding heart liberal to the extreme, I'd still think Kerry was an idiot. He certainly isn't doing the Democrats any favors. Of course he still can't hold a candle to Dean in that department these days. No wonder the Democrats are looking to Hillary in 2008 ... no other choice.
www.downingstreetmemo.com
Just did a google search
Glanced through it....boring.
Excellent. Alienate even more voters. I cannot believe how nuts these people are becoming. It is unreal.
Can't wait till it flies back and hits him in his ugly mug! It will be worth seeing! LOL! What a nutjob! God, thank you this fool wasn't elected president!
Even Gore had more grace in losing than Kerry!
I wish I could have been a fly on the wall when President Bush found out about sKerry's statement. LOL!!
And take his swiftboat full of fools down with him.
Hmmm...whaddya know, just like a certain invisible Senator who happened to serve in Vietnam...
"Now that there is funny, I don't care who you are that there is funny"
Hopefully, his job.
Who cares what he says? All he's doing is digging himself a grave in the bottom of the grave he's already dug.
Speaking of lies. Has Kerry released all of his military records yet? My guess probably not.
Because that's what fools do!
We're cleaning up socialism and this is just part of the dust busting. It's only a matter of time for these people.
Limbacher is notorious for such specious presentations.
OTOH, Limbacher's disingenuous account notwithstanding, Kerry's motivation is blatantly obvious.
I don't *think* there would be be any lies, however, I'm not sure why I should care or what John O'Neill has to do with Kerry being a traitor. I'm just not following you here.
Looks like this year Kerry spent Christmas in London - cause his spin on this memo is just as credible as his Christmas in Cambodia story. Seared, seared into his memory it is.
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