Posted on 10/18/2021 11:40:43 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace on Monday remembered the late former Secretary of State Colin Powell and his controversial speech before the United Nations in 2003 about weapons of mass destruction before the Iraq War began.
"I think the low light of his career was in 2003, when he addressed the United Nations and made the case that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. He didn't want to make that speech," Wallace said during Fox's coverage of Powell's death. "He took a lot of pressure from people in the Bush 43 white house including vice president Cheney who was reported to have said 'look you got high approval ratings, you can use a few of those points to sell the war.' He was very skeptical of the case and actually went out to the C.I.A. and was briefed on it and asked questions and was not thrilled about it but got given order by his boss President Bush and Vice President Cheney and spoke before the U.N. and of course most of what he said about Saddam Hussein having chemical and biological weapons turned out not to be true."
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He did remind me of the General in Mars Attacks! Lol Lost respect for him when he endorsed Obama and Biden.
Now that he is dead, maybe we will find out what skeleton (s) in his closet kept him from running for president.
‘The late?’ Colin Powell? I didn’t know he left the planet.
A “TV general”?
Not everybody wants to be president.
I’m saying Saddam himself acknowledged he still had holdover WMD’s.
” . . . the repeated lie of “no WMD’s in Iraq” . . .
I totally agree with you. I’m sick to death of hearing that there were NO WMDs. Everybody who was paying the tiniest bit of attention was fully aware of them.
In fact, post-Saddam Canada bought a bunch of uranium from Iraq.
I guess a remake of The Mole is being cancelle!
YES! Purely disgusting. That AND his becoming a turncoat in the past election, PLUS his blatant hatred of Trump all caused me to wish I had never supported him. As of today, I wouldn’t waste a good hocker on him.
Screw them both.
Right——
Many reports thru the years about Powell’s penchant for Social / Military advancement on his RACE CARD, which was always on display.
Powell was the one who let the Iraq army get away to kill another day. Thousands of Kurds were killed when they thought the USA was going to help them.
Take Chris Wallace’s words with a grain of salt.
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