Powell to Go for Broke at the UN

time ^ | 1/30/03

[knak]

U.S. indictment of Iraq will be televised live from the Security Council next week, and could bring the crisis to a head.

After weeks of dampening expectations for "smoking gun" evidence against Iraq, the Bush administration is now teeing up an "Adlai Stevenson moment." That's diplomat-speak for the instant in which a U.S. official trumps all naysayers at the United Nations by hauling out graphic, incontrovertible evidence that its enemy is lying. Stevenson, as President John F. Kennedy's UN ambassador in 1962, slam-dunked the Soviets during a heated Security Council debate by producing satellite photographs that disproved Moscow's denials that missiles had been stationed in Cuba. Secretary of State Colin Powell hopes to produce a similar effect when he presents U.S. evidence against Iraq at a special session of the Security Council convened at U.S. request next Wednesday.

[TXnMA]

Thanks! And, Hey! that flag looks vaguely familiar... '-}

("LiberalHell" should have been a clue.)

Been there; got the scars; ain't a-goin' back!

[The Raven]

From NBC News:

NBC has learned that the information Powell would share with the United Nations was likely to include:
Satellite photos showing truck convoys apparently moving Iraqi weapons — one step ahead of U.N. weapons inspectors.
Satellite photos of bulldozers at more than a dozen sites apparently burying chemical and biological materials.
At least one photo showing Iraqi Scud missile launchers parked next to a mosque.
Telephone intercepts gathered by the National Security Agency that record Iraqi officials giving orders to conceal weapons and to lie to U.N. weapons inspectors.

[ConservativeLawyer]

NBC has learned that the information Powell would share with the United Nations was likely to include:

Satellite photos showing truck convoys apparently moving Iraqi weapons — one step ahead of U.N. weapons inspectors.

Satellite photos of bulldozers at more than a dozen sites apparently burying chemical and biological materials.

At least one photo showing Iraqi Scud missile launchers parked next to a mosque.

Telephone intercepts gathered by the National Security Agency that record Iraqi officials giving orders to conceal weapons and to lie to U.N. weapons inspectors.

So Quoth The Raven

If this is the content of Powell's presentation, it will be devistating for Iraq. Of course, the Security Counsel will find some other excuse to block the war.