The truth is coming out about the incredible lies that Bush made Powell give to the UN.....Too bad he just didn't resign and say what a crock this white house is in it's bid for war against the rest of the world for it's own political power
Powell was Under Pressure to Use Shaky Intelligence on Iraq: Report
Agence France Presse
Friday 30 May 2003
US News and World Report magazine said the first draft of the speech was prepared for
Powell by Vice President Richard Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, in late
January.
According to the report, the draft contained such questionable material that Powell lost his
temper, throwing several pages in the air and declaring, "I'm not reading this. This is bullshit."
Cheney's aides wanted Powell to include in his presentation information that Iraq has
purchased computer software that would allow it to plan an attack on the United States, an
allegation that was not supported by the CIA, US News reported.
The White House also pressed Powell to include charges that the suspected leader of the
September 11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta, had met in Prague with an Iraqi intelligence officer
prior to the attacks, despite a refusal by US and European intelligence agencies to confirm the
meeting, the magazine said.
The pressure forced Powell to appoint his own review team that met several times with
Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet and national security adviser Condoleezza
Rice to prepare the speech, in which the secretary of state accused Iraq of hiding tonnes of
biological and chemical weapons.
US News also said that the Defense Intelligence Agency had issued a classified assessment
of Iraq's chemical weapons program last September, arguing that "there is no reliable
information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons."
However, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress shortly after that that the Iraqi
"regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX, sarin,
cyclosarin, and mustard gas," according to the report.
RIGHT!....and two old semi trailers is what we went to war for??????
while the SAUDI'S continue to support Bin Laden......remember HIM????
Bush doesn't
and he's trying to forget Sadaam also
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