I had to write a summary and reliability of the Downing Street Memo. I have to turn it in today. Its very short. If someone will please take the time to read it could you let me know how it is? Meaning, if you didn't know anything about the Downing Street Memo would you have an idea of what it is about now? Thats the first paragraph. Second paragraph is how reliable I feel the memo actually is. This is a very political thing I have written and I am not wanting this to turn into a political debate. I have just been stressing over this because I had never heard of it before and I would like some opinions on how everyone thinks it sounds. I'm not sure how my first sentence fits in but I feel like it needs to be in there somewhere. What do you guys think? Thanks a bunch!
The Downing Street Memo is described as the “smoking gun memo” by some critics. Downing Street occurred eight months before the invasion of Iraq. The Memo is the overview of a secret meeting of United Kingdom government discussing the build-up to the war. They held the meeting at this time because it had become clear that George Bush intended to take down Saddam Hussein by force. The memo contains three issues: 1.) timing of decision to go to war with Saddam, 2.) Weapons of Mass Destruction rationale and, 3.) use of intelligence to create the casus belli, which is a Latin expression that can be translated as “risk of war” or “occasion for war.” The minutes run through the British military option. After that they discuss the political strategy of how to get the best response from the public. It also suggests that Tony Blair requested to have the United Nations weapons inspectors issued in order to make the force legal. However, the US saw it better to remove Saddam Hussein from power than to disarm Iraq.
The Memo is not very reliable. The Memo is simply minutes from a meeting that everyone is taking and putting into their words. No one, unless they were involved in the meeting, actually knows what took place on Downing Street. The minutes from the meeting can be deciphered in numerous ways. The minutes are being deciphered within everyone’s political views. The people who do not like Bush and are upset about going to Iraq are deciphering the minutes in a completely different way than those who are supporters of Bush and the war in Iraq.
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well i think its a great piece of writing no matter how short you feel it is..i had never heard of 'The Downing Street' memo so i have defiantly learned something new today ... it came across loud and clear to me
Thanks a bunch guys. I had never heard of this either. I have been doing a lot of research. Now if only chemistry was only research I'd have it made. This chemistry stuff if hard.
This is going to be me in chemistry on Wed. because there is no way I'm passing this test unless I cheat.
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Saving just one dog won't save the world, but it surely will change the world for that one dog. -Richard C. Call