There are people of good will on both sides of the Atlantic who want the truth to be known about the runup to the war in Iraq. And a few are willing to take big risks in the name of holding current UK and US leaders to at least the minimal standard of veracity.
Our brave men and women in uniform take even bigger risks in the name of our country by putting their lives on the line every day. (Note my two links - at the left beneath "Informed Comment" - that are soldier blogs.) Our leaders have the obligation to match that courage by being honest about how things in Iraq went in the past and how they are going now.
New York Representative John Conyers has taken a preliminary lead in trying to get more information out to the people of the US. It may have missed the mark a bit, according to this writer, but it was courageous.
Michael Smith writes more for us about what to make of all of the documents related to the genesis of the "Downing Street" affair in Great Britain. To hear from the reporter who received the leaked "Downing Street Memos" was fascinating.
My companion, Progressive Other, was so fascinated that he opined, "Think how much easier it would have been for Bush to have had John Bolton at the UN back then, rather than Colin Powell (who was probably out of the information loop about all this)."
That thought sends "shivers up me spine." Keep up with the latest on the Bolton nomination through The Washington Note, written by Steve Clemons. His blog is an example of the kind of effective advocacy that is, of necessity, occasionally reliant on anonymous sources.
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