I note this comment, found at the home of the Iraqi blogger “Raed in the Middle”, found here:

Uh, the letter says that the US was ramping up for a posssible war with Iraq by June of 2002. As I recall it was pretty clear after Sept. 11, 2001, 9 months earlier, that the shit was gonna hit the fan. It was only a matter of time after Saddam kicked out the UN inspection teams, and Iraq tried to play games when the US started demanding their reinstatement. What was kinda funny was that they counted on the French to keep the US from actually invading. Anyway, this is no smoking gun and Conyers is a hack politician with no widespread following.

There seemed to (and still seems to) be bizarre parallel storylines, some in alternate universes, about the War and the Run-up to War in Iraq. Bush said, in late 2002 or early 2003 to the press, “You say we’re headed to war. I don’t know why you suggested that. I’m the person who gets to decide, and not you.“… a statement that was full of bull on many counts, which was obvious bull at the time. (Beyond the lie aspect, and the faked incredulity toward the reporter who (gasp!) suggested that a war looks forthcoming — there’s the weird matter that the Constitution decrees that Congress declares war — a matter that was thrown to the wind during the Cold War with the new innovation of “War Authorization.”)

Anyway… Bush Administration finally has some kind of response to this story that’s … sort of overhyped in what accounts for the Liberal Media. (That’d be Nation and such magazines, Air America, a batch of blogs… and, really that’s about it.) It amounts to a joke.

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