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To: Alighieri who wrote (397097)	7/8/2008 7:25:54 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577591

When you read through this stuff, you realize he's nearly as bad the rest of the Bushies. As far as I am concerned, Powell is flunkie neo! "Mr. Powell goes from Washington The timing was critical — the eve of a pivotal presentation by Colin Powell. That next morning, at the U.N. Security Council's horseshoe table, with CIA chief Tenet behind him, the secretary of state delivered an 80-minute indictment of Iraq, complete with aluminum tubes, up to "500 tons of chemical weapons agent," and artist's conceptions of Curveball's questionable "mobile labs." Powell's sources went unidentified, tapes of intercepted conversation were cryptic, claims made about satellite photos were uncorroborated. It turned out the State Department's own analysts had warned, futilely, against saying vehicles in spy photos were chemical "decontamination trucks," since they might be simple water trucks. And a senior CIA officer has told investigators he raised the Curveball concerns with Tenet the night before the speech, something Tenet denies. After watching the performance on CNN in Baghdad, Amer al-Saadi, Iraqi liaison for the inspections, lamented that "the fiction goes on. It goes on and on." But Powell's sober authority worked in America, where support for action soared." usatoday.com So Powell comes clean: "Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday his prewar speech to the United Nations accusing Iraq of harboring weapons of mass destruction was a "blot" on his record. "I'm the one who presented it to the world, and (it) will always be a part of my record. It was painful. It is painful now," Powell said in an interview with Barbara Walters on ABC-News. " However, he was still of the opinion that: "Still, Powell said that while he has always been a "reluctant warrior", he supported Bush on going to war the month after his U.N. speech. "When the president decided that it was not tolerable for this regime to remain in violation of all those U.N. resolutions I am right there with him with the use of force," Powell said." usatoday.com