Kerry To Push For Bush Impeachment

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John Kerry announced his intention to present Congress with The Downing Street Memo, which allegedly reveals that President Bush's administration manipulated intelligence regarding Iraq to justify the war. This memo, reported by the London Times on May 1, 2005, includes minutes from a July 2002 meeting with Tony Blair, where it was suggested that intelligence was "fixed" around policy. Kerry's push for impeachment, supported by Ralph Nader and discussed on platforms like Michael Moore's website, is set to begin on Monday, as mainstream media largely overlooks the issue.

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Should Bush face impeachment?

  • YES

    Votes: 20 64.5%
  • NO

    Votes: 8 25.8%
  • NOT SURE

    Votes: 3 9.7%

  • Total voters
    31
  • #61
SOS2008 said:
At least I follow the news, and provide sources/links in what I post--you should try it some time. :rolleyes:


Ha, Ha... You're asking a lot with this.

Personally, I knew the good old US of A was in dire straits when a good man(relatively at least in political terms) like John MacCain could be bumped off the presidential ballot by a push-poll. "Would you vote for Senator MacCain if you knew he had a colored child?"

The US has been TV dinnered and Jiffy-popped to the point of not caring about real news or real events. They only car about what Fox or CNN tell them to regurgitate. Nothing like seeing the echo chamber in action huh?
 
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  • #62
SOS2008 said:
At least I follow the news, and provide sources/links in what I post--you should try it some time. :rolleyes:

I think me and a lot of other people must have selective memory because I don't think many of us could recall you ever doing that :cry:

i don't know why i put the cry face... just nice change of faces :biggrin:
 
  • #63
The Downing Street Memo update according to MSNBC "Countdown"

SECAUCUS -- Last Wednesday, Senator John Kerry told the editorial board of the newspaper in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the "Standard-Times," that he was amazed at the lack of American media coverage of the so-called "Downing Street Memo" -- notes of a July, 2002 British cabinet meeting that suggested the U.S. was making all the evidence fit a pre-planned invasion of Iraq.
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By Saturday, those quotes, and the original New Bedford story, had been transmuted ...Blogs and websites pulsated with the news: Kerry was going to call for the impeachment of President Bush!
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The Senator's office told "Countdown" last night that he [Kerry] never said anything about impeachment and asked our reporter where he'd read that line. The answer was: the websites of NewsMax and Al-Jazeera.
However, NOW the story is in the mainstream media, especially following responses by Blair and Bush, who tried to brush the topic aside. In the meantime -

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8135134/
Washington Post-ABC News Poll, June 7, 2005
"52 percent said war in Iraq has not contributed to the long-term security of the United States"
 

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