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To: sockmonkey

It does remind me of weapons of mass destruction...

And although the Iran deal is a disaster and must be dealt with, I’m not in favor of another war. And Nikki should stick with banning flags, lol, that’s about her speed.


12 posted on 12/17/2017 5:11:17 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

“”It does remind me of weapons of mass destruction...””

First thing that came to my mind. What? Colin Powell speaking at the UN about WMD.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/19/powell.un/

“I wish I had not been involved in it,” says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a longtime Powell adviser who served as his chief of staff from 2002 through 2005. “I look back on it, and I still say it was the lowest point in my life.”

Wilkerson is one of several insiders interviewed for the CNN Presents documentary “Dead Wrong — Inside an Intelligence Meltdown.” The program pieced together the events leading up to the mistaken WMD intelligence that was presented to the public. A presidential commission that investigated the pre-war WMD intelligence found much of it to be “dead wrong.”

“”Powell’s speech, delivered on February 5, 2003, made the case for the war by presenting U.S. intelligence that purported to prove that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Wilkerson says the information in Powell’s presentation initially came from a document he described as “sort of a Chinese menu” that was provided by the White House.””


14 posted on 12/17/2017 3:42:58 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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