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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (2693)	2/3/2004 1:46:04 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 3079

Mephisto, Looks to me as though Dems will benefit from following news story: Colin Powell voices doubts about Iraq war Tuesday, 03-Feb-2004 6:00AM Story from United Press International ----------------------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has expressed doubts about the decision to go to war against Iraq, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Powell said Monday he might not have recommended war if he had known Iraq had no stockpiles of banned weapons. Asked if he would have recommended an invasion knowing Iraq had no prohibited weapons, Powell replied: "I don't know, because it was the stockpile that presented the final little piece that made it more of a real and present danger and threat to the region and to the world." He said the "absence of a stockpile changes the political calculus; it changes the answer you get." However, even without chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein sought to get them and tried to keep the infrastructure to make them once international sanctions were lifted, Powell said. Therefore, history will ultimately judge that the war "was the right thing to do."