Tonight, as Billy was flipping through the channels, I [unfortunately] caught a few minutes of Fox "news" covering the special effects behind Star Wars - yes, I know, two post in a row about Lucas - now I'm not questioning that the special effects for a sci-fi movie are news-worthy material... [long pause to let the sarcasm sink in] okay, so, what would I be hearing about if - and this is a big "if" - American media was reporting actual news? For starters, I might be hearing about something called "The Downing Street Memo" - a document containing the meeting minutes during a July 23rd, 2002 talk [a full 8 months before our invasion of Iraq] with the British Prime Minister. The document clearly states that Bush decided to go to war in the summer of '02 and that he ensured U.S. intelligence be "fixed" to support his decision relevant to WMDs.

When asked about the document's validity - British officials didn't even try to dispute it's authenticity. But... I guess I'd rather hear about the news-breaking special effects behind a movie with 'wookies' in it, opposed to what appears to be Bush's downfall. Lucky for Bush though, U.S. media isn't covering the document.

Ten days ago eighty-nine democratic members of the congress asked Bush to explain the memo... so far I can't find anything about his actually responding.

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