overlooked part of DS Memo...

[staticstopper]

Straw is quoted as having his doubts about the Iraqi threat.

'But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran,' the memo reported he said." - From the KR memo article May 5, 2005.

I wonder how this makes our soldiers and their parents feel?

[babsbunny]

1. Hopefully it makes them mad as hell!

We need people to wake up and get angry!

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. The military families overwhelming believe that Iraq was responsible

for 9/11 and that unless we have a war "over there" they will come "here" and make war. They are lost, never to be found.

[global1]

2. Somebody Should Send The Downing Street Memo In It's Entirety ....

to all the parents of GI's that have been killed or wounded.

[staticstopper]

6. I agree,

but how to do it with sensitivity?

[ClintonTyree]

4. The soldiers and their families...

WANT to feel that their missions and sacrifices are for a good and noble cause. In fact, most will fight to reject negative reports about their mission and sacrifice being based on lies, always giving the commander in chief the biggest benefit of the doubt possible.
This president has pushed the envelope too far for some and many more are waking up to reality. It will take an impossibly long time to convince a majority that they're fighting for a lie and refuse to continue.
That's the nature of the military beast. When the time comes that they finally accept being used by bush and his henchmen, there will be all hell to pay. Unfortunately, that time will probably be too late for some, they'll be discharged or dead and their sacrifice will have been in vain.

[staticstopper]

5. I'm very glad that there has not been

any backlash toward our brave soldiers this time...

(I wonder if all that crap that went down in the 70's was from agent provocateurs just waiting for someone like Kerry to show up in the future. We should be vigilant against anyone who tries that stunt this time.)

...their sacrifice will have been in vain.

Maybe we can turn their suffering into a movement that will finally remove that Watergate bunch (like cheney and Sr.) from powerful positions, the ones that are still defiling our capital and it's institutions.

{ed. by me to take out redundancies}