This is what happens when we don't do our job to force the media to do their job and take US serious!
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Downing Street memos don't tell us anything new
http://tinyurl.com/aj5zx
DAVID ZEECK; THE NEWS TRIBUNE
Published: June 19th, 2005 12:01 AM
Perhaps you've heard of the Downing Street memo.
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The memo (now a series of memos; see stories on pages A10 and Insight 6) also has become a media issue. Conservatives ignore them. Liberals see in them proof that Bush ginned up a war that was completely unnecessary. - (deep in the paper and with bad headlines)
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I've gotten precisely four e-mails and two phone calls asking about the memo(s). I appreciate the readers who ask for more information; they're entitled to a fair accounting of what's in the memo and what it means.
Here's a sampling of reader comments about the memo:
"Please help the citizens of the United States to be informed so that they can make informed decisions," wrote Kevin Manley in an e-mail, asking us to report about the memo. "It is your job." - (This is me)
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more below...
I've read all the memos and, while I think they're an interesting window into history, I don't think they tell us anything we didn't already know: The Bush administration was spoiling for a fight with Iraq (even though they exhausted every bit of U.N. pressure before invading) and they used intelligence regarding WMD (which we now know was flawed) to support the case for war.
Nothing in the Downing Street memos proves the U.S. had determined war was inevitable in July 2002 or that it knew at the time the intelligence was wrong. - (or COOKED)
http://tinyurl.com/aj5zx
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Question for all of you....
So how would some of you like to respond to this editor? Especially if you live in Tacoma or read the Tribune.
here is his contact info:
David Zeeck
Executive Editor
253-597-8434
david.zeeck@thenewstribune.com