Colin Superman! Come in Superman!
I'll post the link too ... it's a good picture of Colin ...
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4275512
I hadn't realized 'intent' is enough to justify invading another country...I
just wonder who the psychics were that the Admin hired to verify the intent.
The Amazing Kreskin has been in retirement for a while now ...
I'm still giving Powell 3 weeks to toss in the towel.
/ex
Powell Says Invasion Justified by Iraqi 'Intent'
Tue February 3, 2004 04:27 PM ET
Powell Justifies Iraq Invasion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regardless of whether Iraq had stockpiles of banned
weapons, Washington would probably have decided to invade Iraq anyway
because of its "intent" and its weapons-making ability, Secretary of State
Colin Powell said on Tuesday.
"I think it was clear that this was a regime with intent, capability and it
was a risk the president felt strongly we could not take and it was
something we all agreed to and would probably agree to it again under any
other set of circumstances," Powell told reporters.
The United States' main justification for invading Iraq in its first
pre-emptive war was to eliminate the threat from President Saddam Hussein's
banned weapons.
But the man President Bush appointed to lead the search for the weapons,
David Kay, said late last month he believed there were in fact no stockpiles
of weapons.
Powell, who made Washington's keynote presentation before the United Nations
to detail pre-war intelligence about Iraq's weapons program, said, "The only
thing that is even being discussed right now is what stockpiles were out
there."
He noted that the intelligence surrounding the existence of those weapons
was to be investigated by a commission Bush is setting up.
"But the bottom line is this: The president made the right decision. He made
the right decision based on the history of this regime, the intention that
this leader -- terrible, despotic leader -- had, and the capabilities at a
variety of levels," Powell said.
In his remarks, the top U.S. diplomat appeared to back away from comments in
an interview published earlier on Tuesday with the Washington Post.
Asked if he would have recommended an invasion knowing Iraq had no
prohibited weapons, Powell was quoted as saying, "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."
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