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If You Disagree With My Position You Are Just 'Hysterical Liberals'!
RECEIVED Tue., July 5, 2005
Dear Editor,
Several hysterical liberals including Jim Hightower ["The Hightower Report," News, July 1] claim the Downing Street Memo is fact. The memo is nothing more than Matthew Rycroft's opinion. Hightower claims it as proof (any opinion against Bush must be true), yet not one confirmed fact or source is listed. Did Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and the UN also fix the facts? Every one of them agreed Saddam had WMDs. The memo uses the words "summarized," "likely," "expected," "fixed," "possible," "activity," "convinced," "could," but states no facts. To quote Bill Clinton, "Not a shred of evidence."
Several hysterical liberals including Jim Hightower ["The Hightower Report," News, July 1] claim the Downing Street Memo is fact. The memo is nothing more than Matthew Rycroft's opinion. Hightower claims it as proof (any opinion against Bush must be true), yet not one confirmed fact or source is listed. Did Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and the UN also fix the facts? Every one of them agreed Saddam had WMDs. The memo uses the words "summarized," "likely," "expected," "fixed," "possible," "activity," "convinced," "could," but states no facts. To quote Bill Clinton, "Not a shred of evidence."
Paul Douglas
[Jim Hightower responds: The memo is no "opinion," but the intelligence findings of a top British official reporting to Prime Minister Tony Blair. Furthermore, as noted in my commentary, the findings of the memo are backed up by six other reports (collectively called the British Briefing Papers) from top British military officials. Not everyone who dares question Bush's war is either a liberal or hysterical, Mr. Douglas. Many just don't like being lied to.]