Last Straw

U.S. Con­gress­man, John Con­yers, (the guy who appeared in Mike Moore’s doc­u­ment­ary Fahren­heit 9/11 stat­ing that mem­bers of Con­gress “don’t read most of the bills”), has been lead­ing a small con­tin­gent of U.S. con­gresspeople push­ing for invest­ig­a­tions into the Down­ing Street Memo.

Con­yers and crew delivered a peti­tion to the White House last thursday signed by over 500,000 Amer­ic­ans demand­ing an explan­a­tion from Bush on the con­tents of the memo (which indic­ate that Bush and the rest of his admin­is­tra­tion deceived Con­gress about invad­ing Iraq).

They say a pic­ture is worth a thou­sands words, sev­eral mem­bers of Con­gress want to see the Pres­id­ent, and they won’t even be let past the gates… some demo­cracy huh?

AMER­IC­Ab­log has a copy of a let­ter from Con­yers to the Wash­ing­ton Post for its appar­ently woe­ful cov­er­age of the recent Down­ing Street Memo hear­ings led by Conyers.

Here’s one of the com­ments pos­ted to AMER­IC­Ab­log in response:

The Cor­por­ate Media con­tin­ues to dis­credit itself. The thing we have to remem­ber is that we do have a very detailed pub­lic record of what the Bush Admin­is­tra­tion has done and how the elite media has been cov­er­ing for him. Ulti­mately, when the his­tory of this time is writ­ten, the people in the media will be the object of scorn and ridicule. This will be the leg­acy they hand down to their chil­dren and grandchildren.

Mean­while the occu­pa­tion of Iraq con­tin­ues, and not only are poor Amer­ic­ans sent away to faraway coun­tries to kill and be killed so the rich can get richer, but they have to pay for their own equip­ment too.

As per usual it’s the vul­ner­able who pay for the crimes of our glor­i­ous leaders:

More than two years after the Iraq war star­ted, chil­dren con­tinue to be its main vic­tims as the health of the major­ity of the pop­u­la­tion con­tin­ues to deteriorate.

In the 1980s, Iraq had one of the best health-care sys­tems in the region. Today it can­not respond to the most basic health needs of the pop­u­la­tion. In 1991, there were 1,800 health-care cen­ters in Iraq. More than a dec­ade later, barely half remain and almost one-third of those require major rehab­il­it­a­tion. U.N. Devel­op­ment Program’s Human Devel­op­ment Index for the coun­try has fallen from 96 to 127, one of the most dra­matic declines in human wel­fare in recent history.