There is a new report out from the inspector general at the Dept. of Defense that provides clear evidence that senior Bush officials at DoD “fixed” the pre-war intelligence on Iraq to suit their policy of fictitiously connecting Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda’s attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, in order [...]

Signed, sealed, delivered: At 9 a.m. yesterday, May 1, aka “Mission Accomplished Day,” Ellen Tenney of Rockingham, Vermont, presented Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert with petitions from three towns in Vermont calling for the impeachment of George Bush. The towns each passed resolutions to send the petitions.
These are the first of what organizers [...]

Just in time for Christmas! Which is the only thing I don’t like about this – the timing. The report is being released tomorrow – just as the country is blanking out for the holidays. Whatever impact it might have will likely be forgotten by the time Congress comes back next year:
House Judiciary Committee Democrats, [...]

Frank Rich:
Very little has been written about the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG. Its inception in August 2002, seven months before the invasion of Iraq, was never announced. Only much later would a newspaper article or two mention it in passing, reporting that it had been set up by Andrew Card, the White [...]

Iowa Congressman Jim Leach will become the first Republican to sign on as a co-sponsor of a resolution demanding the White House turn over documents related to revelations in the Downing Street Memos, according to the Des Moines Register.
Leach represents a Democratic-leaning district around Iowa City and has often broken ranks his party [...]

“In the summer of 2002…the president began lobbying for an open-ended resolution empowering him to wage war on Iraq…. Bush had made clear his intentions to wage war on Iraq in several of our private meetings.”
- Sen. Trent Lott, in his book “Herding Cats,” corroborating statements in the Downing Street Memos proving that President [...]

The Zogby Poll that found that 42 percent of Americans would approve of impeaching President Bush if he lied about the reasons for going to war finally found its way into the Washington Post. What’s next, the New York Times? (I know, silly me!)
Was Bush motivated more by personal animosity toward Saddam Hussein than by [...]

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, the Washington Post covered the Downing Street documents on its front page today. The article reveals a bit more than we had known previously about the motivations of British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the run-up to war.
It was clear from the getgo that Bush was risking [...]

Tompaine.com has an article up by Russ Baker titled Why George Went to War. The question comes as a result of glimpses behind the scenes during the run-up to war in early 2002 offered by the Downing Street documents.
Baker describes how a combination of events and atmospherics came together to enable President Bush to [...]

First Fox News assured its brainless accolytes that there was nothing to the contents of the Downing Street minutes and memos, now Rush Limbaugh has come out with a similar message for the intellect-free class he calls his Dittoheads:
I purposely haven’t talked about this Downing Street memo much because, frankly, A, it didn’t interest me. [...]