Reply #69: My letter to the Post:

[RBHam]

So the Wahington Post finally decideds to report on the Downing Street Memo. "The Memo That Won't Quit" -Froomkin, May 17th. The contents of the memo, never challenged by British PM Tony Blair or his Cabinet, leaves little doubt that the Iraqi War was justified by what British "Respect" MP George Galloway has called "a pack of lies".

What remains an embarrasment is that it has taken two weeks for the Post to finally feel the need to report on it. Mr. Froomkin calls this news potentially a "bomb with a long, slow fuse." If that is true, it's only because of the American Media's refusal to hold their own leaders accountable.

After the Post's complicity in selling the Bush Administration's Lies of Mass Destruction I thought you'd decided that your credibility was important.

I guess not.

R.B. Ham
Saskatoon. Saskatchewan, Canada.