Question For the Brits on My F'lsit: Exactly How Bollocks is That?

Every Saturday, I listen to a news comedy radio quiz show called wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!. You can listen to the segments of the show, on the site, btw.

And in the first segment, one of the answers to one of the questions was "The Downing Street Memo," and the host explained:

([. . .] = audience laughter, and jokes from the panalists, cut for the sake of readablity)

People have argued about this, but some say the 'smoking gun,' if you wll, is a sentance in the memo that says that the White how was (quote) '...fixing the intelligence about Iraq's WMD's around the policy.' And some of the defenders (this is true) of the White House, on this score, say: Oh, no, no, no! Don't you understand? The word 'fixing,' in Britain, doesn't mean what it does here. [. . .] It doesn't mean, you know, "faking it," or, "changing it." It means affixing [. . .] adhering, attatching...

Really now, is this claim true? Not that I don't trust the patriotic defenders of our president, [:::ahem -- cough!:::] you understand, but you guys really are the experts on this... it being your own language, and all...

Calling all those who have vivid memories of the '04 American Presidential Election!

'You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit the views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.'

I could swear I remember John Kerry saying this (or a very close paraphrase) in reference to Bush's "fixing" evidence for war in Iraq. But I can't quite remember the context (I think it was either in a stump speech, or a debate), and a Google search has come up empty.

Is my mind playing tricks on me, or does any one else remmeber him saying this, too? I'm only asking for the sake of my sanity...