Reply #66: I think about Goebbels, and Pol Pot and Idi Amin

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and I just don't see Powell in the same league....

I have to say he almost convinced me that there were WMD's in Iraq.....

Here's what I think happened.

The white house knew Powell was a boy scout and wanted a peaceful solution -

Cheney gave him the vial of anthrax about the same time he was guaranteeing to the congresscritters the validity of the wmd claim. Cheney could have cared less that he was flushing Powells' 40 year career down the toilet.

That little intel report the Brits supplied to the White house was the proof that Powell needed to suspend disbelief.

I think the whole point of the vial, the intel report timing was for Powells benefit.

He was secretary of state and was GONE from washington for months up to the selling of the war trying to get the coalition of the gullable on board.....

Cheney. It was all Cheney.

As a retired military man known world wide to NOT be a war monger, he was a perfect stooge for the job at the UN....