Smoking Gun II

This picture represents the extent of the Free Press in America.
The UK, on the other hand, still publishes articles critical of their government.
London’s Sunday Times published the text of another Top Secret UK Memo dated July 21, 2002 (two days prior to the date on the Downing Street Memo).
Read it: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1648758_1,00.html
And the original Downing Street Memo at: http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/memo.html

Again it is noted that evidence for Weapons of Mass Destruction are “thin” and that “desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action.”

"U.S. views of international law vary from that of the U.K. and the international community. Regime change per se is not a proper basis for military action under international law...Legal bases for an invasion of Iraq are in principle conceivable...but would be difficult to establish because of, for example, the tests of immediacy and proportionality. "

"US military planning unambiguously takes as its objective the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime, followed by elimination if Iraqi WMD. It is however, by no means certain, in the view of UK officials, that one would necessarily follow from the other. Even if regime change is a necessary condition for controlling Iraqi WMD, it is certainly not a sufficient one. "

Even though the British felt that the US plan was insufficient to result in a stable Iraq, and even though the legalities of military action were not being observed, the UK felt it had to go along, that Austrailia “would be likely to participate on the same basis as the UK” and that Russia and China might stay out of the way “if sufficient attention were paid to their legal and economic concerns.” (That means keep paying them.) But the British bottom line was that “In practice, much of the international community would find it difficult to stand in the way of the determined course of the US hegemon.”

The Determined Course of the US Hegemon. Sounds like the subtitle to a book about the Bush Administration. Bush’s War On Terror: The Determined Course of the US Hegemon. Of course George W Bush probably has never used the word hegemon or hegemony in a complete sentence, so let me disassemble it for you:
Hegemon, n. One that exercises hegemony.
Hegemony, n, The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

In other words, the British couldn’t legally justify invading Iraq, but they would go along and so would many other countries because the US is a big bully and will use their power to get what they want.

If somebody on the Congressional Judiciary Committee does not call for an investigation then there is something seriously wrong with our government. They will attempt to impeach a sitting president for lying about a blow job, but they won’t investigate a president for lying about his reasons and timing for going to war.