Need help finding Colin Powell quote...

[bamademo]

I googled and googled and couldn't find it. It's a quote from 2000 or 2001 in which he stated Iraq had destroyed all of it's WMD's after the first Gulf War. I should know better than to argue with Freeper co-workers about Iraq but these folks are in serious denial. Bush could eat fried kittens in front of them and they would still think he's great.

Thanks.

[rainy]

1. I just saw this days ago

I only go to a few sites so you might check them out for articles relating to this.
Sites:
Commondreams.org
IC news international clearinghouse
buzzflash
PINR yellowtimes
alternet.com
hope this helps

[HootieMcBoob]

2. Is this what you're looking for?

Pilger uncovered video footage of Powell in Cairo on February 24, 2001 saying, "He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours."

Two months later, Rice reportedly said, "We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt."

Powell boasted this was because America's policy of containment and its sanctions had effectively disarmed Saddam.

Pilger claims this confirms that the decision of US President George W Bush - with the full support of British Prime Minister Blair and Howard - to wage war on Saddam because he had weapons of mass destruction was a huge deception.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/23/1064082978207.html

[JaneQPublic]

3. From the State Department website

I'm actually surprised they haven't scrubbed this yet:

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/933.htm

We had a good discussion, the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq, and these are policies that we are going to keep in place, but we are always willing to review them to make sure that they are being carried out in a way that does not affect the Iraqi people but does affect the Iraqi regime's ambitions and the ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and we had a good conversation on this issue.