Bush/Blair "Press Conference" in 1 hour

[No Limit]

If the issue of the Downing Street Minutes is not raised I do not ever want to hear anyone on this board say anything about the liberal media. Deal?

If it is raised I already know Bush's reply:

Bush: The memo has been discredited by all the agancies that looked at the intelligence including the 9/11 commission.

The reason I posted this is so that you can call bullshit if you happen to be watching this:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200506060008

and the actual memo if you only get info from the US media and haven't heard about it:

http://downingstreetmemo.com/memo.html

 

[Feath]

Oh, it's the same one that game out before the General Election. Story died over here because there was a different emphasis on it.

 

[No Limit]

Oh, it's the same one that game out before the General Election. Story died over here because there was a different emphasis on it.

Yeah, you guys had full media coverage on it. Here it hasn't been mentioned once even after the fact if accurate the president committed an impeachable offense.

 

[Feath]

Well, I'm pretty sure it's true. No one denied it. In fact the defence of the Attorney General was that he changed his mind on the legality later. (kinda)

I'm going to be listening to this live, by the way.

But the emphasis on this conference is going to be on aid to Africa and reducing global emissions.

EDIT: Okay, well Bush just opened on the War of Terror thing. So I guess there'll be mentions of Iraq.

EDIT 2: "Prime Minister Blair". Stupid reporter woman.

 

[No Limit]

Well, I'm pretty sure it's true. No one denied it. In fact the defence of the Attorney General was that he changed his mind on the legality later. (kinda)

I'm going to be listening to this live, by the way.

But the emphasis on this conference is going to be on aid to Africa and reducing global emissions.

EDIT: Okay, well Bush just opened on the War of Terror thing. So I guess there'll be mentions of Iraq.

EDIT 2: "Prime Minister Blair". Stupid reporter woman.

Where are you watching this? Cspan.org has some stupid conservative thing on?

 

[Feath]

I'm listening to it on Radio. http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/

They've mentioned the memo. Oh noes!!!1 Liberal Media!!1

 

[No Limit]

Cspan was listing it on the wrong channel, found it.

They are talking about it now, their defense is the memo was written before they went to the UN. Well yeah, no shit, that's the whole point.

 

[No Limit]

I'm listening to it on Radio. http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/

They've mentioned the memo. Oh noes!!!1 Liberal Media!!1

Yeah, damn LIBERALS. This is exactly what we needed, get ready for this to be out fool blown through out the media tonight (I hope).

 

[No Limit]

Ok to recap what they said on the memo. Blair and Bush said they went to the UN after the memo was written so somehow this is supposed to mean that they did everything right? They didn't address a single point of the memo; I will continue to listen to this and hopefully the media will be talking about it tonight.

 

[Feath]

The point was that they hadn't decided on military action. They went to the UN just after that meeting and it was only after there was no over course, they took military action.

 

[No Limit]

No follow up question for the memo great, I think I got excited over nothing.

The point was that they hadn't decided on military action. They went to the UN just after that meeting and it was only after there was no over course, they took military action.

But my point is that is absolute BS. Yes, they went to the UN with such claims as those damn aluminum tubes can only be used for weapons when the fact is they couldn't be used for weapons at all. Then if people recall, the UN never approved military action. So I honestly don't see how this is a valid answer to the question "were facts being fixed around policy".

 

[No Limit]

Media attention might finally occur:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050607/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_blair

Standing alongside Blair, Bush also for the first time addressed a 2002 memo to the prime minister from a top British intelligence official suggesting that the United States had bent intelligence to justify a decision to invade Iraq and had sought British cooperation.

"There's nothing farther from the truth," Bush said. "Both of us didn't want to use our military. It was our last option."

Said Blair: "The facts were not being fixed in any shape or form at all."