downing street memo
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Media Lens: Conspiracy – The Downing Street Memo – Part 2
Imagine our surprise, then, when we finally got round to reading Smith’s original May 1 article, including the memo itself, and found that the real story was the revelation that Straw and Blair had conspired to use inspections to lure Saddam into obstructing the UN, so providing an excuse for war. By implication, the leaks… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Conspiracy – The Downing Street Memo – Part 1
It is remarkable, but now indisputable, that the current leaders of Britain and the United States are responsible for just such a conspiracy…Carne Ross, a key Foreign Office diplomat responsible for liaising with UN inspectors in Iraq, said last week that British government claims about Iraq’s weapons programme had been “totally implausible”. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 