November 20, 2014

Downing Street Memo vs. Gruber

Ann Coulter: “The Downing Street memo consisted of minutes from a July 2002 meeting of British labor, defense and intelligence officials during the run-up to the Iraq War, in which the MI6 head, Richard Dearlove, reportedly said that ‘Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.’ These notes from a British cabinet meeting were called the smoking gun of Bush’s lying his way into war. … Those weren’t Tony Blair’s notes. They were a secretary’s interpretation of the MI6 chief’s interpretation of the Bush administration’s argument to the United Nations. It’s like a movie review, written by someone who knew someone who had seen the movie. The memo writer also wasn’t being paid $400,000 by the Bush administration to make Iraq War policy. Jonathan Gruber was paid that much – plus another several million from the states – to design Obamacare. … You can’t say the Downing Street memo was a totally legitimate news story, but that the Gruber tapes are meaningless. Ninety-nine percent of Americans were utterly unaffected by the invasion of Iraq – other than to be made safer, until Obama threw our victory away. Every American is affected by Obamacare. The bald-faced lies told to pass Obamacare expose not only that law, but all Democratic economic claims. When Obama boasts that it will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who won’t pay income taxes but will need a lot of government services, remember: Obamacare was supposed to save money, too.”

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