The Downing Street Memo
By Maryellen Lake
americanchronicle.com
June 10, 2005
The mainstream American media are desperately ignoring the smoking gun(s) found in the Downing Street Memo, recently released in Britain. Even as we speak, however, Rep. John Conyers has thousands of signtures to his letter demanding an explanation of the flim-flammery contained in those brief minutes of a meeting with Tony Blair and his very own "coalition of the willing." A few intrepid voices in the House are also calling for the empanelling of an Impeachment Inquiry.
George Bush, however, continues to insist that the memo lies. That should come as no surprise from a President who spends every waking hour in Never-Never Land. But Ken Mehlman of the RNC has flatly stated that anyone who has ever read the memo has discredited it. That's interesting - no one in the British government or in MI6 has discredited it. Are we to assume that they have never read it?
In any event, Bush's ass is very close to being put into a sling from which he may not be able to extricate himself - provided, that is, our media have the gumption to even ask him about the memo! But nobody seems to be asking except that crazy Conyers and, by now we hope, millions of Americans who are on the Internet and signing Conyers' letter and petitions like mad.
But (no pun intended) the man whose fanny is in the most danger is Blair. He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. If he admits that the memo is, indeed, authentic, he will plant Bush's fanny firmly in the fishnet of possible impeachment thereby betraying his big, bullying buddy; if he denies and lies, his own backside is in danger of getting waffle-imprinted. Watching this unfold has the potential of becoming a new political sport!
Are we about to discover an old, old truth - that there is no honor among thieves? Will Blair buckle and try to discredit the minutes of his own meeting? Or will he turn on Bush to save his own tush? Stay tuned. Although that probably won't do you much good if your only access is to the American media. Check out the memo itself. Just google in Downing Street Memo and read the whole sickening thing.
No matter - we can still maintain some optimism that eventually this issue will hit the ms media so as to cause possibly several asses to land in the appropriate slings of their own making. Dare we hope? |
