(Stealing wholesale from Kos, because this is too important not to.) When does the impeachment start? Are the mainstream media and the Congress waiting for a semen-stained blue dress, or what?
There are 43 exhibits in all, of which #23 is the Downing Street Minutes (technically speaking, not a memo). (Use [Click here for full post…] at the bottom to read all 43.)
Exhibit 1:
1999: BUSH PLANS WAR IN ’99, WELL BEFORE ELECTION
http://www.gnn.tv/articles/article.php?id=761Exhibit 2:
9/2000: Bush plans Iraq ‘regime change’ before becoming President
http://www.sundayherald.com/27735Exhibit 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.shtmlExhibit 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.DTLExhibit 6:
12/2001: Bush Begins to Plan Iraq War Three Months After 9/11
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17347-2004Apr16.htmlExhibit 7:
2002-2003: Cheney Pressures CIA on Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&
contentId=A15019-2003Jun4¬Found=trueExhibit 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.htmlExhibit 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.htmExhibit 10:
5/9/2002: U.S. war hawks [BOLTON!] 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
Exhibit 11:
5/20/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE AIRCRAFT DETECTION SITE IN IRAQ
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020520-centcom01.htmExhibit 12:
5/22/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE TWO IRAQI ANTI-AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020522-centcom01.htmExhibit 13:
5/24/2002: COALITION AIRCRAFT STRIKE INTEGRATED AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020524-centcom01.htmExhibit 14:
5/30/2002: COALITION AIRCRAFT STRIKE INTEGRATED AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020530-centcom01.htmExhibit 15:
6/14/2002: COALITION STRIKES IRAQI OFFENSIVE AIR SITE
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020614-centcom01.htmExhibit 16:
6/20/2002: COALITION STRIKES IRAQI OFFENSIVE MILITARY AIR DEFENSE SITE
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020620-centcom01.htmExhibit 17:
6/28/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE AIR-DEFENSE FACILITIES
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020628-centcom01.htmExhibit 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=46962Exhibit 19:
7/13/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE AIR-DEFENSE FACILITIES
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020713-centcom01.htmExhibit 20:
7/15/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE MOBILE RADAR UNIT
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020715-centcom01.htmExhibit 21:
7/18/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE IRAQI COMMUNICATION FACILITIES
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020718-centcom01.htmExhibit 22:
7/23/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE IRAQI COMMUNICATION FACILITIES
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020723-centcom01.htmExhibit 23:
7/23/2002: Downing Street Minutes
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.htmlExhibit 24:
7/28/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE IRAQI COMMUNICATION BUNKER
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020728-centcom01.htmExhibit 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.htmExhibit 26:
8/14/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE IRAQI AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020814-centcom01.htmExhibit 27:
8/15/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SITE
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020830-centcom01.htmExhibit 28:
8/17/2002: COALITION AIR FORCES STRIKE IRAQI MOBILE RADAR UNIT
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020817-usia01.htmExhibit 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.htmExhibit 30:
8/25/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE AIR DEFENSE RADAR SYSTEMS
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/mil-020825-centcom01.htmExhibit 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.htmExhibit 32:
8/29/2002: COALITION FORCES STRIKE MILITARY RADAR SYSTEM
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020829-centcom01.htmExhibit 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.htmExhibit 34:
9/2002: White House Silences Experts Who Question Iraq Intel Six Months Before War
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/leopold6.htmlExhibit 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/4431601Exhibit 37:
10/2002: National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq WMD stripped of dissenting opinions *
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/special_packages/iraq/7917626.htmExhibit 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+ReportedExhibit 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.htmlExhibit 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=trueExhibit 41:
Spring/2003: Blix suspects U.S. spying on him
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1158353,00.htmlExhibit 42:
3/17/2003: Ex-CIA Accuse Bush of Manipulating Iraq Evidence
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81148,00.htmlExhibit 43:
9/2004: President Bush has Saddam’s Pistol
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3623/is_200409/ai_n9421009?cm_ven=YPI
