Momentum Grows On Downing Street Memo Action

Yesterday, I told you that I had joined a new blogger coalition called the Big Brass Alliance, a bunch of bloggers who want some serious answers to the questions raised by the Downing Street Memo. The BBA has joined with loads of other groups in supporting the work of After Downing Street.Org, who are pressing US lawmakers for a Resolution of Enquiry and hope to enlist the help of Congressman John Conyers to do so. In that regard, Conyers is looking for support and signatory names for a letter to President Bush requesting he answer the questions posed to him by 89 Members of Congress. You can add your name to supporting that letter here.

Congressman Conyers has also written to Rumsfield asking some hard questions about other revalations from the UK that the air war against Iraq had actually already been begun before the UN resolution which legitimised the war had been passed. I posted my own view on that news just the other day. The Brad Blog has the details of the letter.

There are also a couple of other Unpaid Punditry Corps members who have signed on to the BBA.

Simianbrain has the low-down on a breifing document from a February 2001 meeting of the National Security Council as well as how Tony Blair had to plead with Bush to deal with alQaida and Afghanistan first before stampeding into the needless war in Iraq.

And PSoTD will tell you about the $1,000 on offer to anyone who can get Bush to give a direct answer to the question "In July 2002, did you and your administration "fix" the intelligence and facts about non-existent Iraqi WMD's and ties to terrorism - which were disputed by U.S. intelligence officials - to sell your decision to invade Iraq to Congress, the American people, and the world - as quoted in the Downing Street Minutes?"

More from the BBA as and when it happens. Those of us who feel Blair and Bush illegally rushed into the Iraq War can take heart that 88,000 people have already visited the After Downing Street website.