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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 04:41 AM
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Somebody help me find two quotes
Condi and Powell saying in about 2000 that Saddam's WMD's were contained

Thank you in advance
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 05:05 AM
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1. here's one
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/powell-no-wmd.htm

In February 2003, Powell said: "We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more."

But two years earlier, Powell said just the opposite. The occasion was a press conference on 24 February 2001 during Powell's visit to Cairo, Egypt. Answering a question about the US-led sanctions against Iraq, the Secretary of State said:

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...
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spooked Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 05:27 AM
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2. the video is also here
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 05:35 AM
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3. Thank you so much
That's a big help
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