Downing Street Minutes is exhibit 23 of 43

by colinb
Sun Jun 5th, 2005 at 15:43:21 PDT

So, why is the mainstream media ignoring the Downing Street Minutes? Minutes from a British Prime Minister's meeting in July of 2002 which contained this explosive evidence:

C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.

Are they ignoring it because they want corroborating evidence? Well, if it's corroborating evidence the press wants, let's help em out.

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Exhibit 1:
1999: BUSH PLANS WAR IN '99, WELL BEFORE ELECTION
http://www.gnn.tv/articles/article.php?id=761

Exhibit 2:
9/2000: Bush plans Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President
http://www.sundayherald.com/27735

Exhibit 3:
1/2001: Bush plans Iraq invasion before 9/11
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/10/oneill.bush/

Exhibit 4:
3/2001: Cheney Task Force Eyes Iraq Oil
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/072003C.shtml

Exhibit 5:
9/12/2001: Rumsfeld considers Iraq bombings one day after terror attacks
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/03/20/national0310EST0431.DTL

Exhibit 6:
12/2001: Bush Begins to Plan Iraq War Three Months After 9/11
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17347-2004Apr16.html

Exhibit 7:
2002-2003: Cheney Pressures CIA on Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A15019-2003Jun4&notFound =true

Exhibit 8:
Spring/2002: A high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department extremists suppressed information and twisted the truth to drive the country to war.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp/index_np.html

Exhibit 9:
4/7/2002: The Crawford Deal: Blair signs up for war at Bush's Texas ranch in April 2002
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8165.htm

Exhibit 10:
5/9/2002: U.S. war hawks oust Bustani from UN because he was attempting to get Iraq to allow chemical weapons inspectors in the country, which would have deprived Washington of a quasi-legal justification for military action against Baghdad.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/14/feature1.shtml

Exhibt 11:
5/20/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE AIRCRAFT DETECTION SITE IN IRAQ
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020520-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 12:
5/22/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE TWO IRAQI ANTI-AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020522-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 13:
5/24/2002: COALITION AIRCRAFT STRIKE INTEGRATED AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020524-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 14:
5/30/2002: COALITION AIRCRAFT STRIKE INTEGRATED AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020530-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 15:
6/14/2002: COALITION STRIKES IRAQI OFFENSIVE AIR SITE
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020614-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 16:
6/20/2002: COALITION STRIKES IRAQI OFFENSIVE MILITARY AIR DEFENSE SITE
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020620-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 17:
6/28/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE AIR-DEFENSE FACILITIES
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020628-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 18:
7/2002 President Bush diverts $700 million into Iraq invasion planning without informing Congress.
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=46962

Exhibit 19:
7/13/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE AIR-DEFENSE FACILITIES
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020713-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 20:
7/15/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE MOBILE RADAR UNIT
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020715-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 21:
7/18/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE IRAQI COMMUNICATION FACILITIES
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020718-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 22:
7/23/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE IRAQI COMMUNICATION FACILITIES
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020723-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 23:
7/23/2002: Downing Street Minutes
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html

Exhibit 24:
7/28/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE IRAQI COMMUNICATION BUNKER
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020728-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 25:
8/5/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE IRAQI AIR DEFENSE COMMAND AND CONTROL FACILITY
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020805-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 26:
8/14/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE IRAQI AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020814-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 27:
8/15/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SITE
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020830-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 28:
8/17/2002: Coalition Air Forces Strike Iraqi Mobile Radar Unit August 17
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020817-usia01.htm

Exhibit 29:
8/20/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE IRAQI MILITARY COMMAND AND CONTROL FACILITY
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020820-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 30:
8/25/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE AIR DEFENSE RADAR SYSTEMS
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/mil-020825-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 31:
8/27/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE IRAQI MILITARY COMMAND AND CONTROL FACILITY
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020827-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 32:
8/29/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE MILITARY RADAR SYSTEM
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020829-centcom01.htm

Exhibit 33:
8/29/2002: Boucher Says Regime Change Is Only Way to Solve Iraq Problem
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020829-usia02.htm

Exhibit 34:
9/2002: White House Silences Experts Who Question Iraq Intel Six Months Before War
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/leopold6.html

Exhibit 35:
9/27/2002: Bush calls Saddam 'the guy who tried to kill my dad'
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/27/bush.war.talk/

Exhibit 36:
10/2002: White House kills Pentagon plans to strike Zarqawi's camp in Northern Iraq in order to maintain the White House's claim that Iraq has ties to terrorists
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601

Exhibit 37:
10/2002: National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq WMD stripped of dissenting opinions *
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/special_packages/iraq/7917626.htm

Exhibit 38:
*1/2003: Britain, U.S. spy on UN allies over war vote
http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=5526&fcategory_desc=Under+Reported

Exhibit 39:
1/2003: 'We're Going to Have to Go to War,' Bush Says to Rice
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19691-2004Apr17.html

Exhibit 40:
1/6/2003: It is revealed that special forces have been operating on missions inside Iraq since August of 2002
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/05/1041566310159.html?oneclick=true

Exhibit 41:
Spring/2003: Blix suspects U.S. spying on him
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1158353,00.html

Exhibit 42:
3/17/2003: Ex-CIA Accuse Bush of Manipulating Iraq Evidence
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81148,00.html

Exhibit 43:
9/2004: President Bush has Saddam's Pistol
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3623/is_200409/ai_n9421009?cm_ven=YPI