(pdf): Congresswoman Barbara Lee (Dem., Calif.) on July 21, 2005, introduced – along with 26 co-sponsors – a Resolution of Inquiry in the House of Representatives which, if passed, will require the White House and the State Department to “transmit all information relating to communication with officials of the United Kingdom between January 1, 2002, and October 16, 2002, relating to the policy of the United States with respect to Iraq.”
The text of the Resolution, H. Res. 375, and a list of current co-sponsors, is here.
According to the same e-mail, “There are now 53 co-sponsors on Barbara Lee’s Resolution of Inquiry into the Downing Street Memos, including one Republican member of the International Relations Committee, Jim Leach.”
A vote in committee will come between Sept. 6 and Sept. 16.
Jim Leach is one of the few politicians in D.C. whose opinions I continue to find interesting, unlike Feingold whose proposed candidacy in ’08 is one I can’t endorse and is likely a decoy, in any event.
buermann should send a copy of his exit strategy to the “people” who don’t speak for me.
Updated @ 1423 8/30/05:
According to Unknown News:
August 23, 2005
68,332 KILLED
173,346 SERIOUSLY INJURED
August 30, 2005
68,408 KILLED
173,480 SERIOUSLY INJURED
76 people died and another 134 were seriously injured this week.
I’ve been thinking about going to the protest, but I don’t think my exit strategy would fit on a sandwichboard. So far as “strategy” implies policy it isn’t policy, it’s a policy goal. It’s like we’re watching a bunch of executive secretaries performing triple-bypass heart surgery – is it better to stop them in their fucked up tracks or let them continue fucking everything up? How deep have they cut? And that’s about as far as that hack metaphor goes.
The “people” need to explain to me why giving these bozos enough time to build their permanent bases is good for this country or Iraq. Who do they think will be attempting to maintain them – martians?