Reply #88: I like Powell..

[MattSWin]

The key part of this article which some of the fringe left-wing purists at DU choose to ignore says:

"In fact, Secretary Powell was not told that one of the sources he was given as a source of this information had indeed been flagged by the Defense Intelligence Agency as a liar, a fabricator," says David Kay, who served as the CIA's chief weapons inspector in Iraq after the fall of Saddam. That source, an Iraqi defector had never been debriefed by the CIA, was known within the intelligence community as "Curveball."

Powell wasn't trying to push us to rush into war. He was simply presenting information the DoD was telling him to present. They're the ones who misled him.

How many Secretaries of State would refuse to present information provided by the DoD? Get real, none would.