[Vision2020] Third Anniversary of the Downing Street Memo

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        Thursday, July 21, 2005 

        Third Anniversary of the Downing Street Memo 

   On Saturday, July 23, over 300 events organized by the 
AfterDowningStreet.org coalition and Rep. John Conyers will mark the three-year anniversary of 
the meeting at No. 10 Downing Street in London that was recorded in the now 
infamous minutes known as the "Downing Street memo." Members of Congress will be 
hosting some of the events, including ones in Detroit, Inglewood, Calif., 
Seattle, Oakland, Calif., and New York City. 

BOB FERTIK, http://www.afterdowningstreet.org 
   Fertik is co-founder of the group After Downing Street. He said today: 
"The invasion of Iraq was a war crime based on lies. A recent Zogby poll found 
that 42 percent of Americans believe George Bush should be impeached if he lied 
about Iraq, and the Downing Street minutes prove that Bush lied." [This 
Saturday from 2-4 p.m. Bob Fertik will moderate an event at the New York Society for 
Ethical Culture that includes Rep. Maurice Hinchey and former Rep. Liz 
Holtzman.] 

TIM GOODRICH, ivaw_west at ivaw.net, http://www.ivaw.net 
   Goodrich is co-founder of Iraq Veterans Against the War, a member of the 
After Downing Street coalition. He will be speaking at an event on 
July 23 in Inglewood, Calif., hosted by Rep. Maxine Waters. From a family 
with a tradition of military service, Goodrich grew up in Buffalo, N.Y., and 
enlisted in the Air Force at the age of 18. He deployed overseas twice in support 
of Operation Southern Watch (patrolling the southern "no-fly zone" over Iraq) 
and once in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (operations against 
Afghanistan), where he earned combat veteran status. His last deployment was spent 
supporting the bombing of Iraq before the formal commencement of hostilities. 
Goodrich said today: "Downing Street memos show without a doubt that Bush and 
Blair were intent on invading Iraq despite the diplomatic outcome. This is a 
betrayal of trust to the people of the world and there must now be accountability, 
combined with immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces in Iraq." Last 
month, Goodrich testified in the World Tribunal on Iraq where he said: "I was 
there in Iraq in fall of 2002 when the war was already happening even though it 
was not officially announced. We were dropping bombs then, and I saw bombing 
intensify as a part of the 'softening up' of Iraq's defenses. All the documents 
coming out now, the Downing Street memo and others, confirm what I had 
witnessed in Iraq. The war had already begun while our leaders were telling us that 
they were going to try all diplomatic options first." 

DAVID SWANSON, david at davidswanson.org 
   Swanson is co-founder of the group After Downing Street. Swanson said 
today: "Working together, using the Internet and other forms of new media, 
hundreds of thousands of regular citizens have come together to force the issue of 
Bush's pre-war deception onto the national agenda." 

For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: 
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167 
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Vision2020 Post by Ted Moffett
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