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
So why propagate the lie that we didn’t find it?
Let Code Pink and idiots do that.
Promote the truth.
I am promoting the truth.
Colin Powell said he was deceived about WMDs.
What is untruthful about that?
‘ol powell has the smell of a man desparately trying to save his own reputation. i recall he was being groomed for great things by the gope.
if the warhead tipped scuds had been found and sent home from iraq (and i certainly wish they had), i’m pretty sure he’d still be a rock-ribbed member of the republican establishment.
hang in there FRiend. when you post something like this on FR, the bush old guard is going to come at you.
Uh, we did indeed find WMD?
Not hardly...
We knew they had been in Iraq in large numbers, but lost the publicity/public relations battle about WMDs (Gore: “Bush lied and people died!”) early on because they weren’t found (which wasn’t a huge surprise). When they (WMDs and precursors) or the remnants thereof were found, albeit in limited numbers, the president made a conscious decision not to reopen the public discussion on WMDs in Iraq. A number of us disagreed vehemently, but we lost the argument to Powell and the public relations advisors, which was only one of a number of things - including the initial strategy with respect to Iraq - on which I and others disagreed with the administration, specifically Rumsfeld and Powell.
Is it a lie to say, “Colin Powell Said He was deceived about WMDs”?
Or did Colin Powell NOT say that.
I know you see the difference.
Unfortunately, most of the details are still classified, but I have no idea why...
So, point me to the link where the Bush Administration claims that they’ve finally found WMDs and their claims have been proven.
It is a lie to say we did not find any.
In which case, you are saying that the Bush administration lied about not finding any.
Correct?
Why is it so hard to admit that we found WMD?
Follow the thought:
People falsely claimed we did not find WMD when we did.
Since we did find them, ANYONE who says otherwise -including Trump, Colin Powell et all, are then doing what?
ANYONE propagating the falsehood that we did not find WMD are then doing what?
Let’s start this over.
1. We found WMDs
2. The Bush administration does NOT admit we found them.
Were they lying?
We found WMD, ANYONE saying otherwise, whether it is Trump, Colin Powell, or the freaking tooth fairy is doing what exactly?
Did the Bush Administration admit that they found WMDs?
Trump’s, and Powell’s, premise was that there were no WMD’s.
So lump them into the liar list too.
https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/iraq_wmd_2004/chap5_annxB.html
All the facilities (laboratories, pilot plant, bunkers, and animal storage area) inspected that were supposed to be sealed as a result of UN resolutions had been breached.Exploitation of these facilities revealed materials and equipment were removed, however the extent of looting makes it difficult to differentiate whether Iraqi government removed equipment after 1998 while still under UN sanction or if it was looted after OIF.
• Locks on metal doors were cut or concrete and bricks were breached producing apertures large enough for human entry.
• Figure 13 shows that bricked entryways were breached. The debris in the corridor in the photo to the right apparently is from removed material inside the bunker.Massive amounts of cylinders that once stored chemical agents, primarily bulk mustard agent, now are stacked in huge bunkers. This practice was consistent with Iraq’s destruction program involving the removal and incineration of agent and equipment.
• Hundreds of bulk storage cylinders were preserved from the destruction processes that took place in the early 1990s. They once contained chemical agents that were supposed to be destroyed. The remaining cylinders contained residual material that was to be neutralized by adding caustic and water. Some residual or leaking caustic, now dried, is apparent from the white residue on the side of a cylinder in Figure 14 (residue not sampled). This is consistent with Iraq’s destruction program involving the removal and incineration of agent and equipment.
• The team located a storage cylinder with the red and white plastic siphon (see Figure 14), and found it suspect. It was apparent that contents had been removed. Follow-on analysis of the drum revealed the drum was filled with petroleum products (presumably fuel oil). ISG assesses the fuel oil storage in the cylinders might be from residual oil once used in/for the mustard incinerator. Since the oil was associated with mustard destruction, it might have been regarded as hazardous material and thereby not discarded into the environment. Instead it was placed into the contaminated storage cylinders and stored in the bunker with the rest of the contaminated cylinders.
ISG also exploited the underground pilot plants, which also had been breached by looters, and found a reactor unit that was suspect.
• The reactor should have been destroyed as part of UNSCOM inspections. The plant infrastructure required to operate the reactor was missing rendering it inoperable.
• The reactor is made from a recycled two-ton bulk mustard storage cylinder, similar to the ones viewed in the storage bunker above (see Figure 15).
Did Bush admit they found WMDs?
Will you personally admit that we did, and that anyone, and I mean ANYONE, saying otherwise is wrong?
I’ve always admitted that we did.
Did the Bush admin admit it?
Nobody has admitted to it.
That’s the problem.
And now we have Powell bloviating, and idiots parroting the outright lie that we never found any.
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