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To: Bucky Katt who started this subject	4/3/2004 1:03:47 AM
From: Buddy Smellgood	Read Replies (1) of 48461

Gosh!-- Powell Says Key Intelligence Piece on Iraq Flawed-- By Saul Hudson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) acknowledged on Friday that the "most dramatic" part of his presentation to the United Nations (news - web sites) making the case for war on Iraq (news - web sites) was based on flawed intelligence. Powell also said he hoped a commission investigating the U.S. intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction would reveal how the CIA (news - web sites) ended up depending on unreliable sources for key evidence he used to argue for war. The acknowledgment about alleged mobile chemical arms laboratories could further hurt the credibility of the Bush administration, also under fire in an election year for failing to stop the Sept. 11 attacks. The United States justified its first preemptive war by accusing Iraq of amassing illegal arms and invaded last year without explicit U.N. approval and over the objections of many allies. In February, 2003, Powell made a major presentation of the U.S. case against Iraq at a special session of the U.N. Security Council, where he said the United States had several sources showing mobile chemical weapons laboratories. But on Friday, the top American diplomat said the evidence on the trailers has been shown to be shaky. "Now it appears not to be the case that it was that solid. But at the time I was preparing that presentation it was presented to me as solid," Powell told reporters on a flight home from a trip to Europe. While doubts about the U.S. sources of evidence for the laboratories have been raised for over a year, Powell's remarks were the most straightforward acknowledgment from the Bush administration that the information was probably wrong. "That was the most dramatic of them (pieces of evidence) and I made sure it was multi-sourced," he said. "Now if the sources fell apart, then we need to find out how we've gotten ourselves in that position." "I hope (the commission) will look into these matters to see whether or not the intelligence agency had a basis for the confidence that they placed in the intelligence at that time," he said. The failure to unearth banned weapons a year after the invasion has fueled criticism of the Bush administration for misleading the country into a war that caused hundreds of U.S. deaths and sparked a deadly insurgency against the American occupation. Despite being one of the administration's most respected officials, Powell's credibility has suffered because many critics saw him as the mouthpiece for the intelligence community over Iraq. Powell sought on Friday to distance himself from the evidence he used in his U.N. presentation. "I'm not the intelligence community," he said.

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