Posted on 02/19/2016 6:25:35 AM PST by xzins
aded on Jun 12, 2007
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, appearing on the June 10, 2007, edition of "Meet The Press," reiterated and expanded on his claim that he was misled by unknown forces in the intelligence community who failed to reveal vital information to him before his infamous February 5, 2003, speech before the
I’m not even talking about what was or wasn’t said.
It is irrelevant when you consider that we did indeed find WMD.
Isis fired mustard gas shells last year.
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/2016/02/17/80505318/
possibly from stock plundered from bunker 13.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/234626/saddams-wmds-lefts-iraq-lies-exposed-arnold-ahlert
I’m not sure lie is the best word and I don’t hold Powell in the highest regard given his full on embrace of Obama. I do believe that the everyone wanted to believe that there were WMDs and I do believe there was WMD capability in Iraq. I supported the Iraq invasion but I didn’t imagine that the President would allow the war to be ran in such a politically correct fashion placing our soldiers at greater risk and jeopardizing the whole war effort. Do I believe that GW Bush was malicious? Certainly not. We all believed even Democrats that Iraq had to be dealt with after 9-11 over 80% of Americans agreed but if anyone lied it was that we were lying to ourselves.
I worked in the Government, both the DoD and DHS, and I have no doubt concerning the fact is they had evidence of subterfuge concerning WMDs in Iraq and it suggested they did exist in some fashion and I have little doubt that the intelligence was not 100%, it never is. I don’t question going into Iraq but only how the war was conducted and with that hindsight it was very much a mistake but it is one I believe even a Democrat would’ve made if in office. No politician after 9-11 was going to stand by and say we are just going to hope and pray Saddam Hussein, who was constantly violating the no fly zones and threatening the US rhetorically, is just posturing when there was evidence that he was stockpiling chemicals, and behaving as if he had a clandestine WMD program.
The key point is that we have had foreign policy failures from Clinton through Bush and through Obama and most of them were because of politically correct nonsense and this idea that we must put humanitarianism over winning wars and the lives of our soldiers. That is the reason I will not support sending more military into the Middle East not when we have million bombs that can vaporize ISIS in a flash and a mushroom cloud. There is no honor in war and the more Muslim radicals that exit this plane of existence the better.
Mustard gas is easy to make and deploy and it degrades with time.
I don’t believe that its circumstances justified the wanton slaughter of women and particularly children, which definitely took place. And neither did Hugh Everret, the helicopter pilot who finally brought it to an end.
I know from my own experience inVietnam, how quickly such scenarios can get out of hand. However, the key to tempering them took leadership on the ground, of which there was none that day. Nor none administratively in the few days that followed, of which Powell as definitely complicit in the soothing memo he typed up for the Americal Division commander from his air conditioned hooch in Chu Lai, rather than getting on a helicopter and flying the 10 minutes it would have taken to get down to Quang Ngai province to review what really happened for himself.
Do I have more time in the military than you?
Do I have more sons who were there than you?
They fired it out of an artillery piece.
Kinda hard to home brew that.
My daughter died in a car accident, and time in uniform means nothing these days.
Look at Colin Powell and Wesley Clark.
The content of your actions, spitting on those who were exposed to Sarin and Mustard Gas by repeating the “no WMD” line, shows me all I need to know about whether or not I can count on you.
And, soldier to soldier, I cannot count on you.
Period.
You likely agree about 90% on issues. Or maybe more.
Let’s not forget that.
Just saying.
All over an election campaign.
Great.
No.
All over the truth.
We did indeed find WMD.
Trump, Bush, Colin Powel are irrelevant to that.
Actually not. You have to take my word for it, I can’t say anymore, but google has more info than I can post.
Well, whatever.
You’ve had your say.
I’ve had mine.
It was a great conversation.
But the facts remain, we did indeed find WMD whether people want to admit it or not.
I helped lead the charge on FR to document that fact.
And the Bush Admin lied about it.
George Tenet?
Appointed by William Jefferson Clinton.
Wouldn’t possibly have a motive for deceiving President Bush or any other administration officials, would he?
EVERY, and I mean EVERYONE was on the same page....the Clintons, the Brits, the Germans, etc. ALL KNEW Saddam had WMD!! They went to Syria!
Colon Bowel is a piece of human slime.
Did George Bush ever admit that in public?
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