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"Yang AthD \h.c.\ eacmole@AWOLGWBmail,com" |
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03 Apr 2004 10:56:15 PM |
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Colin Powell: "I'm Sorry Bush Lied About That WMD" |
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040404/ap_on_re_mi_ea/powell_iraq_weapons&cid=540&ncid=716
Powell: Iraq Evidence May Have Been Wrong
BY BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) has conceded
that evidence he presented to the United Nations (news - web sites) that two
trailers in Iraq (news - web sites) were used for weapons of mass
destruction may have been wrong.
In an airborne news conference on the way home from NATO (news - web sites)
talks in Brussels, Belgium, Powell said Friday he had been given solid
information about the trailers that he told the Security Council in February
2003 were designed for making biological weapons. But now, Powell said, "it
appears not to be the case that it was that solid."
He said he hoped the intelligence commission appointed by President Bush
(news - web sites) to investigate prewar intelligence on Iraq "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."
Powell's dramatic case to the Security Council that Iraq had secret arsenals
of weapons of mass destruction failed to persuade the council to directly
back the U.S.-led war that deposed the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news -
web sites). But it helped mobilize sentiment among the American people for
going to war.
As it turned out, U.N. inspectors were unable to uncover the weapons, but
administration officials have insisted they still might be uncovered.
David Kay, who led the hunt for the weapons, showed off a pair of trailers
for news cameras last summer and argued that the two metal flatbeds were
designed for making biological weapons.
But faced with mounting challenges to that theory, Kay conceded in October
he could have been wrong. He said he did not know whether Iraq ever had a
mobile weapons program.
Powell told reporters that as he worked on the Bush administration's case
against Iraq U.S. intelligence "indicated to me" that the intelligence was
solid.
"I'm not the intelligence community, but I probed and I made sure, as I said
in my presentation, these are multi-sourced" allegations, Powell said.
The trailers were the most dramatic claims, "and I made sure that it was
multi-sourced," he said.
"Now, if the sources fell apart we need to find out how we've gotten
ourselves in that position," he said.
"I have discussions with the CIA (news - web sites) about it," Powell said,
without providing further details.
The trailers were the only discovery the administration had cited as
evidence of an illicit Iraqi weapons program.
In six months of searches, no biological, chemical or nuclear weapons were
found to bolster the administration's central case for going to war: to
disarm Saddam of suspected weapons of mass destruction.
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Yang
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AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
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The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: -3 million jobs and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -602 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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