Skip to comments.
Kerry Touts Bush Impeachment Memo
Newsmax.com ^
| 6/3/2005
| Puppage
Posted on 06/03/2005 6:09:18 AM PDT by Puppage
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
"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."
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: britishmemo; downingstreetmemo
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80, 81-94 next last
1
posted on
06/03/2005 6:09:18 AM PDT
by
Puppage
To: Puppage
It is time for Congress to investigate the illegal Iraq warIt's time for JF'n Kerry to understand the Articles of Surrender from the 1st Gulf War.
2
posted on
06/03/2005 6:11:10 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
To: Puppage
Has John Fraud Kerry signed the SF-180 yet?
3
posted on
06/03/2005 6:11:30 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws spawned the federal health care monopoly and fund terrorism.)
To: Puppage
4
posted on
06/03/2005 6:12:07 AM PDT
by
Pondman88
To: Puppage
It's funny how all the people who spouted WMD claims during the Clinton years are now convinced that Bush made the whole thing up.
If Kerry wants to get to the bottom of something, he should start by signing his military records release form.
5
posted on
06/03/2005 6:12:07 AM PDT
by
gruffwolf
To: Puppage
"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.Sounds like Kerry's beeber has been repeatedly stuned.
To: Puppage
Okay... so Bush faked the evidence of WMDs so he could invade Iraq and prove there were no WMDs?
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
it was probably sarcasm)
7
posted on
06/03/2005 6:13:35 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: Puppage
Any way we can impeach Kerry for committing real war crimes in Vietnam?
8
posted on
06/03/2005 6:14:12 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: Puppage
Where was Kerry during Clinton's trumped up Kosove War?
9
posted on
06/03/2005 6:14:13 AM PDT
by
tkathy
(Tyranny breeds terrorism. Freedom breeds peace.)
To: Owl_Eagle
Okay... so Bush faked the evidence of WMDs so he could invade Iraq and prove there were no WMDs?Welcome to the democRATic School of Logic
10
posted on
06/03/2005 6:14:36 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
To: PBRSTREETGANG
To: Puppage
"I think it's a stunning"<
Like your vacuous brain.
To: Puppage
Kerry voted for the war before he voted against it...no wait that was funding...hard to know what the guy is saying:
"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,"
what a blow hard.
thank God he is not President!
13
posted on
06/03/2005 6:15:24 AM PDT
by
socialismisinsidious
("A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.")
To: Puppage
It's about to time to impeach this moron for impersonating a United States Senator. This state is hemorrhaging jobs and people and this tool can't get over the fact that he lost. Worse yet, he lost because of his lack of ideas and credibility and his pandering to the far left wing of his party. So what does he do to rehab his image? He keeps doing the same thing!!!
Not only is he a pitiful senator, he's also a twit politically. What a loser!
To: Puppage
Kerry is a broken record
Kerry is a broken record
Kerry is a broken record
Kerry is...
15
posted on
06/03/2005 6:15:38 AM PDT
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: Puppage
This guy makes Gore-Loserman look like the best sports in history. You had your butt handed to you Kerry, get some therapy and get on with your life
Maybe there needs to be a further investigation into his "War Hero" claims and all of his medals he put himself in for and his anti-war activities after he scammed out of his obligation with scratches. This guy is a disgrace to all the military services, especially to the branch in which he served, and to the branch of the government in which he now "serves"
16
posted on
06/03/2005 6:15:46 AM PDT
by
stm
To: Owl_Eagle
Oh, stop with the logical discourse, wouldya?
To: Puppage
Failed presidential candidate John Kerry
I'm sorry, I stopped reading after this part. Did he say anything worth listening to?
18
posted on
06/03/2005 6:16:55 AM PDT
by
strange1
("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
To: danno3150
"It's about to time to impeach this moron for impersonating a United States Senator."
Can we wait a bit on that? Kerry & Dean are about to deliver us 6 more house & senate seats.
19
posted on
06/03/2005 6:17:12 AM PDT
by
Fenris6
(3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
To: Puppage
What I find "stunning" is that we still don't know what is buried in Kerry-the-Traitor's Military Records.
Has he submitted SF-180 yet???
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80, 81-94 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson