In the blogosphere (I hate that word), the Downing Street Memo has gained quite a bit of traction. Bit even here, in the “sub-etha,” the story has fallen to the wayside for various reasons. A new website, DowningStreetMemo.com has taken up the mantle to get this story out there. Below is an image they are using to spread the word.
Thanks to the Ticked Off Ohioan for the link.
Here’s a link to some media contacts, if anyone feels like writing letters/emails to the press in an effort to get this some coverage.
Hm, I see my link didn’t work. Take two.
It is absolutely amazing that this memo was not front page in every single paper throughout the country. Yet we’re supposed to believe the media is liberal. Ha! Clearly Rush Limbaugh is indeed a big, fat idiot. (Sorry, I know that’s not the most productive or intelligent comment that could be made but it had to be done.)
OK. If this memo is real this administration should go down. No doubt about it. However, as intellegent people I think we should check our source. Look at the evidence. 1. There is a website and a British newspaper article. With all of the blunders in the press and especially the European press I am skeptical about this memo. That may be why the American press is a little hesitant. 2. If you actually take time to read the memo and look at it without emotion and hype it is conveniently exact to what has actually taken place in the past 2 years. I don’t know about you but I know our government along with 30 other country’s could not perfectly coordinate anything let alone starting a war. What I am saying is, it’s too perfect, which leads me to believe it is a fake. 3. If it does come out that this thing is real there should be a revolution to kick all the politicans out of Washington and get this nation back on track because the politicians sure as hell don’t know what they are doing regardless of political party.
I haven’t been following this memo that closely, other than what I’ve heard about it an the Al Franken Show. He said that MI5 was part of the memo. That is the UK’s version of the CIA. Has MI5 said it was a fake? Has Tony Blair made a comment? I’d be curious to know more about how the agencies in England are treating the memo.
The Blair camp’s only comment was that the memo contained “nothing new.” Classic British understatement if you ask me. Trying to make it a non-issue. I, for one, trust the London Times, certainly more than I would the New York Times.
Over on Daily Kos someone made an interesting comment about the Downing Street Memo and the recent uproar over news that Newsweek finally printed and that the Bush Administration is claiming caused riots (which we know is a farce).
“Bush claims he acted based on ‘faulty information’ and ‘bad intelligence’ [See the Downing Street Memo second large paragraph] - the exact errors he is now accusing Newsweek of. However, as a result of Bush’s actions, 1,600 service men and women are dead, as are 100,000+ Iraqis.”