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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (136324)8/28/2013 2:29:16 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 

.....but "blew it" on Desert Storm.

How so.

Prior to Powell appearing at the UN there were published reports (I read an entire article on the subject in "The New Yorker" Magazine by Seymour Hersh) that the intelligence the Bush Administration was relying on for confirmation of the existence of WMD was flaky.

The Germans told us that the Iraq defector with the Code Name "CurveBall" whose facts and allegations were the basis of the WMD intelligence relied on by the Bush Administration could not be trusted, and, in fact, might be working for Iraq Nationalist exiles who wanted America to topple Saddam and install them in power.

I had to ask myself when I heard Powell give that speech at the UN did he even know of the existence of the counter reports (which were circulating in public) about "CurveBall' and if not why not, or if so then why didn't he take them into account?

To be fair a lot of Democrats bought into the Bush admin's story also.
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