It keeps on coming up!
Topic: Downing Street 3000
Well, my one man campaign to raise awareness has paid off! Ok, really it wasn't just me...Or rather it's hardly been me but the DSM is getting a little more attention every day! Proof?

This was on the Washington Post's website (not in print though):

The Downing Street Memo Story Won't Die

By Jefferson Morley
"More than a month after its publication, the so-called Downing Street Memo remains among the top 10 most viewed articles on The Times of London site.

It's not hard to see why this remarkable document, published in The Times on May 1 (and reported in this column on May 3), continues to attract reader interest around the world, especially with British Prime Minister Tony Blair visiting Washington Tuesday."

Not too shabby as people are starting to tune in and find out what the deal is with this memo. There is some argument over at TPMCafe that says that this memo isn't news because we knew the Administration was full of shit all along. True for those of us who spend loads of time reading and writing blogs and following the news..But what about everyone else? We also KNOW they are important as well. Afterall, it was their votes that won the last election not the news nerds on the internet. THEY need to know about this shit so please if you read this bring the memo up, e-mail it to people, let 'em know what happened. BAck to the article...

"The story attracted some news coverage in the United States, but not much. Last month, the Chicago Tribune concluded that "the Downing Street memo story has proven to be something of a dud in the United States.

"The White House has denied the premise of the memo, the American media have reacted slowly to it and the public generally seems indifferent to the issue or unwilling to rehash the bitter prewar debate over the reasons for the war," wrote reporters Stephen J. Hedges and Mark Silva.

Still the story won't go away, thanks to the attention it gets on the Internet.

"I think it's a . . . profoundly important document that raises stunning issues here at home," Sen. John Kerry told a Massachusetts audience last week. "And it's amazing to me the way it escaped major media discussion. It's not being missed on the Internet, I can tell you that."

Kerry promised to raise the issue when he returned to Washington this week."

Say, the guy that lost even knows about it and plans to stir up some shit. Will it have an effect? Rep. John Conyers has been all over this and sent a letter that I singed off on myself to the President. He said this of the memo and the Sunday Times who originaly published the fucker:

"We have The Sunday Times to thank for this very important activity. It reminds me of Watergate, which started off as a tiny little incident reported in The Washington Post. I think that the interest of many citizens is picking up," Conyers said.


Now what we need is some answers. Where do we go from here? Will Kerry make any difference to our collective indifference? Could the DSM be the next -gate scandal?

Soemone else has already discovered some other possible connections with this memo:

"Charles Hanley, a special correspondent for the Associated Press, linked The Times's Downing Street memo to U.N. Ambassador nominee John Bolton's effort to get a U.N. weapons inspector fired.

"Bolton flew to Europe in 2002 to confront the head of a global arms-control agency and demand he resign, then orchestrated the firing of the unwilling diplomat in a move a U.N. tribunal has since judged unlawful, according to officials involved, " Hanley said in a story published this weekend by The Guardian in London and carried by Canadian TV.

The dismissal, Hanley says, was part of the Bush administration effort to control intelligence findings on Iraq.

Jose Bustani, the head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), "had to go" according to one of Bolton's aides, because he was trying to send chemical weapons inspectors to Baghdad. The course of action favored by Bustani might "have helped defuse the crisis over alleged Iraqi weapons and undermined a U.S. rationale for war," Hanley wrote.

Bustani was relieved of his position in April 2002 at an OPCW meeting attended by only one third of the group's member nations, according to the AP report."

All of the sudden we see some connection to this whole John Bolton nomination! HMMMM?!

"The Iraq connection to the OPCW affair comes as fresh evidence surfaces that the Bush administration was intent from early on to pursue military and not diplomatic action against Saddam Hussein's regime," Hanley wrote. He cited the Times's original Downing Street memo story, which reported that Blair told Bush that Britain would support a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq at a meeting in Crawford, Tex., in mid-April 2002.

"Two weeks later, Bustani was ousted, with British help," Hanley wrote.

Far from being a dud, the Downing Street Memo may generate more stories to come."

Stay tuned people!!!