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Powell told senator he'd reveal details about case for war in Iraq after both left office, sources say

Larisa Alexandrovna and Jason Leopold



President Bush’s former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, may have known that the case for military action in Iraq was thin before he presented it to the United Nations, RAW STORY has learned.

In an interview earlier this year, Powell told ABC News’s Barbara Walters that he felt misled by the intelligence community and found the entire experience of presenting questionable information to the United Nations to be “painful.”

"George Tenet did not sit there for five days with me misleading me," he said. "He believed what he was giving to me was accurate."

But according to individuals familiar with Powell’s conversations in the days leading up to his UN presentation, an exchange between Powell and the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joseph Biden (D-DE), indicates that the Secretary may have already had issue with the evidence presented for going to war with Iraq.

Several days prior to his UN presentation, then-Secretary Powell had a private conversation with Sen. Biden, sources familiar with the Secretary's account say.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Powell_expressed_reticence_on_prewar_intelligence_1109.html

[opihimoimoi]

1. He is so full of shit, its amazing...and its too little too late with the

mea culpa...

He knew and he went ahead and did it... GUILTY on all counts.

History will show him to be a POS taken in by the RWs/Neocons

[ladjf]

2. He should have is honorable discharge changed to

dishonorable.

[0007]

9. 'Ya know what fries my ass? Is that when Colin Powell was giving

out his repertoire of lies to the U.N. Security Counsel about how well armed and dangerously cunning Iraq was. John Negroponte was sitting right behind Powell as to give authenticity to the report.

Now Negroponte is head of the new Intelligent Agency that is over all intelligence in this country, and yet no one has asked Negroponte about the Downing Street Memos or anything about Iraq having WMD's.

[opihimoimoi]

12. Amazing they got away with this shit...

[rosesaylavee]

3. Powell presented information to UN that originally compiled

by a California college student. This information dated from 1990 - information based on data collected prior to the first Gulf War. (It was one them rumors on the internets * is always talking about. Sorry no link.)

Powell knew he was misleading when he said it. He's just covering his political ass.

What a schmuck. :eyes:

[Stephanie]

4. I remember that

They got their cassus belli from a Google search.

[flyarm]

6. here are all the links to powells lies i saved in my files!!

i have kept these in my files since powel spoke..i knew one day these liars and asshole murderers would get exposed..and i wanted to keep these to prove it now as i tried to make americans aware then!!




http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4600667-103550,00.html
UK war dossier a sham, say experts
British 'intelligence' lifted from academic articles

Michael White and Brian Whitaker
Friday February 7, 2003

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4601552-103690,00.html

Downing St admits blunder on Iraq dossier
Plagiarism row casts shadow over No 10's case against Saddam

Michael White, Ewen MacAskill and Richard Norton-Taylor
Saturday February 8, 2003

Guardian

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4606426-103550,00.html

US claims on Iraq called into question
Inspectors pick holes in Powell allegations and call for patience in carefully coded message to council

Jonathan Steele
Saturday February 15, 2003


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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030224/kvh

comment | posted February 6, 2003 (web only)
Powell Fails to Make Case
Katrina vanden Heuvel



On February 5, 2003, in a much-lauded presentation before the United Nations, Colin Powell presented evidence of Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the need to go to war to destroy them. But, as Greg Mitchell wrote in a devastating summary of media coverage in Editor and Publisher last fall, "the Powell charade was the turning point in the march to war, and the media, in almost universally declaring that he had 'made the case' fell for it hook, line and sinker, thereby making an invasion inevitable."




http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030224/kvh

[rosesaylavee]

7. Way to go flyarm!

I am going to bookmark this for future reference. (Love that feature)

Kicked, nominated. I am sooooo tired of apologists for Powell. He sold out. Period.

:kick:

[hang a left]

8. You are the best flyarm!

:loveya:

[Swamp Rat]

5. Fuck off Powell!

:mad:

[0007]

10. Lizards are a step higher than Colin Powell....

Powell is more like a lying sneaking slithering cock-a-roach.

[Swamp Rat]

11. Roach eater, perhaps, but Powel'sl got a spine.

To sit and lie at the UN, with a tiny bottle (of cocaine?), and boldly lie where no lizard has lied before requires backbone! To dance on stage, dressed up like one of the Village People, in front of the camera when he went to Korea, takes a LOT of spine! :rofl:

Was he on drugs? :D