Eighty-Eight members of Congress call on Bush for Answers on Secret Iraq Plan

On Thursday, Rawstory scooped the letter Rep. John Conyers was circulating amongst members of Congress -- calling on Bush for an explanation as to his secret war plans for invading Irag in July of 2002. Now eighty-eight menbers of Congress, and counting, have signed on...

Conyers and other members say they are disappointed the mainstream media has not touched the revelations. "Unfortunately, the mainstream media in the United States was too busy with wall-to-wall coverage of a "runaway bride" to cover a bombshell report out of the British newspapers," Conyers writes. "The London Times reports that the British government and the United States government had secretly agreed to attack Iraq in 2002, before authorization was sought for such an attack in Congress, and had discussed creating pretextual justifications for doing so." "The Times reports, based on a newly discovered document, that in 2002 British Prime Minister Tony Blair chaired a meeting in which he expressed his support for "regime change" through the use of force in Iraq and was warned by the nation's top lawyer that such an action would be illegal," he adds. Blair also discussed the need for America to "create" conditions to justify the war." "This should not be allowed to fall down the memory hole during wall-to-wall coverage of the Michael Jackson trial and a runaway bride," he remarks...

Here's a portion of the letter -

We write because of troubling revelations in the Sunday London Times apparently confirming that the United States and Great Britain had secretly agreed to attack Iraq in the summer of 2002, well before the invasion and before you even sought Congressional authority to engage in military action. While various individuals have asserted this to be the case before, including Paul O'Neill, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, and Richard Clarke, a former National Security Council official, they have been previously dismissed by your Administration. However, when this story was divulged last weekend, Prime Minister Blair's representative claimed the document contained "nothing new." If the disclosure is accurate, it raises troubling new questions regarding the legal justifications for the war as well as the integrity of your own Administration. The Sunday Times obtained a leaked document with the minutes of a secret meeting from highly placed sources inside the British Government.

You can read the rest of the letter and see the list of signees over at Rawstory... Update: The corporate media ice is BREAKING! Knight Ridder Washington Bureau's Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott have written a report tilted "British memo indicates Bush made intelligence fit Iraq policy" ...and as of now, the Seattle Times has also published a version - "Memo disputes Bush Iraq claims". Can you say Articles of Impeachment? Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark can, and did two years ago... Prof. Francis Dolye can, and did, two years ago... So did the Veterans for Peace, two years ago... Sign Democrats.com's petition to Impeach Bush at www.ImpeachCentral.com.