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To: SalemsHex who wrote (1756)	1/9/2004 4:49:46 PM
From: SalemsHex	Read Replies (1) of 2171

There was a time when I respected Powell, but not anymore. Don't know how he lives with himself. I'd guess its pretty tough...and I'll also bet he wished he'd never gotten involved with this Nazi Regime. Powell stands by disputed claims From correspondents in Washington January 10, 2004 THE Bush administration defended its case for going to war in Iraq yesterday after an influential Washington think tank accused US officials of "systematically" inflating the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons programs. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said in a report that the US also misrepresented the findings of UN weapons inspectors in a bid to strengthen its push for military action against Iraq. In response, US Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted yesterday he had not seen "smoking gun, concrete evidence" of Iraqi links with terrorism but insisted Hussein was a threat that had to be dealt with. Mr Powell said he remained confident in the case against Iraq he put to the UN Security Council in a presentation on February 5 last year. "I'm confident of what I presented last year, the intelligence community is confident of the material they gave me," he said. "I was representing them. It was information they presented to the Congress. It was information they had presented publicly and they stand behind it. And this game is still unfolding." But the Carnegie foundation report, WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications, said: "Administration officials systematically misrepresented the threat from Iraq's WMD and ballistic missile programs." It added that US intelligence "appears to have been unduly influenced by policymakers' views". The foundation said the US Government should enlist UN help to draw up "a complete history and inventory" of Iraq's WMD and missile programs and establish an independent commission to establish what intelligence services knew about Iraqi weapons. The Carnegie said the US administration misrepresented UN "inspectors' findings in ways that turned threats from minor to dire". It said inspections by UN weapons experts "were on track to find what was there" and that international sanctions and import/export controls were "considerably" more effective than was thought. The foundation said there was "no solid evidence" to back administration claims of a close relationship between Hussein and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. news.com.au

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