If you haven’t heard of the Downing Street Memo, then you’re precisely the reason this campaign has been started. From the site DowningStreetMemo.com:
The Downing Street “Memo” is actually a document containing meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister’s meeting on July 23, 2002 — a full eight months PRIOR to the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003. The Times of London printed the text of this document on Sunday, May 1, 2005, but to date US media coverage has been limited. This site is intended to act as a resource for anyone who wants to understand the facts revealed in this document.
The contents of the memo are shocking. The minutes detail how our government did not believe Iraq was a greater threat than other nations; how intelligence was “fixed” to sell the case for war to the American public; and how the Bush Administration’s public assurances of “war as a last resort” were at odds with their privately stated intentions.
When asked, British officials “did not dispute the document’s authenticity.” and a senior American official has described it as “absolutely accurate.” Yet the Bush administration continues to simultaneously sidestep the issue while attempting to cast doubt on the memo’s authenticity.
And it’s not like the rest of the world and even some of our own congressmen haven’t been screaming about this for a month now.
Congressman John Conyers is calling on American citizens to sign on to a letter to the President that demands a response to questions originally posed by Conyers and 88 other members of Congress [I’m proud to say my rep., David Wu (D-OR) signed on] in a similar letter dated May 5, 2005. Conyers has committed to personally delivering the letter to the White House when it garners 100,000 citizen signatures.
This campaign is a targeted campaign that asks you to contact three news organizations to ask they give more coverage and investigation to the Downing Street Memo.
It’s time we hold Bush accountable. It’s time the buck stopped somewhere. It’s time to force the news media to do their job as the Fourth Estate.
