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- On July 23, 2002 (8 months before Operation Iraqi Freedom) Tony Blair
and his cabinet met to discuss British policy on Iraq.
- The U.S. had already intimated plans for an invasion and sought UK
support in the UN.
- The Memo is a documentation of this meeting between Blair and his
Cabinet.
- It leaked out to the British public on May 1, 2005 in the London Times.
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- The memo exposed the truth to the public about how the Iraq War began.
- It reveals that Bush was determined to use military action against
Saddam.
- That Tony Blair and his top officials were involved in a plan to obtain
legal justification for an invasion.
- Clearly the “facts were fixed around the policy.”
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- The document was published in the London Times, yet the only American
publisher to provide the memo was the New York Times Review of Books.
- No major American media source brought the story to the public-
consequently, no public discourse was incited
- The majority of Americans, even informed Americans, are unaware of this
memo.
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- http://www.michaelsmithwriter.com/img/memo_4_front.jpg
- http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/bkr/lowres/bkrn81l.jpg
- http://www.theprogressivereport.com/Images/blair%20bush.jpg
- http://downingstreetmemo.com
- http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18034
- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article387374.ece
- Danner, Mark. The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the
Iraq War’s Buried History. New York: New York Review Books, 2006.
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