[Marine_Uncle]

Powell, Bremmer and others seem to have less of the frigen facts many of us Freepers have gained over the past few years. I wonder if he is even aware of those 2 million pieces of things our guys are sorting, cataloging, analysising in those Qatar warehouses. The books will be written by those like Hayes. I believe a lot of these high focus people really do not get absorbed in the fine details, only surface details handed to them. And they probably do not retain what they where told a few years back. As for not enough troops. We could have had a million men on the ground and it would not have prevented the insurgency from developing.

[jmc1969]

At least he said this, which we can hold him to later if he changes his opinion again.

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An audience member asked about the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Powell said when he delivered a speech before the United Nations in February 2003, he was convinced by the intelligence reports of the CIA, Israel, Britain, Germany, Spain and others that Saddam Hussein had them.

"Either he got rid of them quickly or Saddam Hussein might have thought he had them,'' Powell said. "We don't know.''