DOWNING STREET: THE BUZZ FROM THE SWARM

THE HERETIK JOE IVORY MATTINGLY PICKS SOME DOWNING STREET MEMO POSTS TO PONDER
AND ADDS SOME THOUGHTS OF HIS OWN:

THE DOWNING STREET MEMO SHOULD BE NO SURPRISE.  Remember Richard Clarke? And Project for a New American Century? The plans to invade Iraq have been in place for  more than a decade.

RICHARD CLARKE: "The president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people, shut the door, and said, 'I want you to find whether Iraq did this.' Now he never said, 'Make it up.' But the entire conversation left me in absolutely no doubt that George Bush wanted me to come back with a report that said Iraq did this.
FREIHEIT UND WISSEN   TRUE BLUE LIBERAL

COLIN POWELL DANCED AROUND THE MEMO ON JON STEWART SHOW. Blah.  Whatever the memo might reveal, blah, blah, Hussein was a bad man. Blah, Blah, Blah.

ABOUT POWELL ON JON STEWART: Colin Powell made this same argument last night on The Daily Show. He said that the Memo wasn't accurate because at that time (Summer of 2002) they hadn't even brought the case for war to the UN.
BLOGENLUST

. . . if harshness/brutality in a regime were the criteria for invasion, we'd be at war with China.
ROB SCHUMACHER

ON THE WELL KNOWN WEENIES who haven't covered the story yet.

Salon has a good article on the idiotic situation we find ourselves in right now with respect to this "famous" memorandum:
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Hilarious, isn't it? Or it would be hilarious if we were reading about it as a story happening in some other, preferably imaginary, place.

ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

AND THE HERETIK ADDS: BUSH AND BLAIR ACT LIKE WE ARE CHILDREN AND THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE TO TELL THE SAME OLD TALE.  If we listen to this soporific bed time tale and fall asleep, to what kind of world will we wake up?

This story has the same beginning it always had and how it will end no one knows.  One thing is certain. It will not be a case of all's well that ends well.  A poisoned tree only bears poisoned fruit. The snake asks us again and agian to eat an apple we have already been choking on.  Mirror, mirror, on the wall. who continues to be the biggest liar of all?

Some whirlwind hype tale of cakewalks and being greeted as liberators has morphed.  Has anyone forgotten that we amassed two hundred fifty thousand troops all around Iraq while Bush and Blair claimed they were letting the peace process work out, while they twisted the Turkish arm to get a northern front that backed out?  Blair and Bush overestimated what they could accomplish then and they underestimate the power of the American BS detector found so many of our patriotic citizens.

We may yet drown in this sad, cynical sea.  That is the fate of people who see something, comment on it from the sidelines, and do nothing to change the problem.  The mother of small problems has this terrible habit of then bearing bigger and more horrible related problems.  In facing the problems this Bush administration presents in the Downing Street Memo and its consequent denials, every blogger posting about this is reminding the public and the media that we see the snakes for what they are.

We live in a seeming age of myths.  If anyone remembers the heroic tale of Hercules and the hydra, the hero was presented with a poisonous snake headed opponent.  For every snake head he cut off, two would grow back.  Hercules had to realize to defeat his opponent, he would have to stop thinking about the snakeheads snapping at him and instead kill the beast whole.

The perhaps hopless call for a letter of resolution for the possible impeachment of George Bush are plain and simple a beginning to kill a poisonous monster whole.  Iraq, once home to the mother of all battles, has spawned more terrible children.  We will see yet more horrible relations. We must press on. When those who could be brave leave the field of battle, victory is left to cowards.

A Heretikal word about other voices out there: Some say nothing can be done about this, we should have other priorities. Bush was elected and the people have spoken blah, blah, blah.  We must focus on the future and our liberal agenda.  May Godwin strike me dead, but I am reminded of another leader who was elected in Germany some seventy years ago.  Seventy years ago a man used the tools of the state to dismantle the state's liberties and institutions.  That man invested in himself all the power of the state.  Some pointed this out early.  We found only horror later. People without the courage to face evil lies now may have no future later.

A whirlwind, a firestorm that might engulf the world awaits.  We have had our Toto, I have a feeling we are no longer in Kansas any more moment. To get back home will take more than a click of the ruby red slippers.
 

 

Comments

[cntodd]

Hey, great post as always Joe!

And on one note you touched on, I should think those nay-sayers out there in the Democratic party who were trying to discourage us from pushing the memo might need to do a bit of back-tracking today. Wouldn't ya say?

[patrick]

More for the swarm:

http://www.wasuvi.com/archives/2005/06/this_is_heartst.html

[eRobin]

I have a new one up too: here.