Powell Speech to UN Live Thread

[Support Free Republic]

Might as well start up the live thread. Speech starts at 10:30 EST (scheduled), which is within the hour.

[Kip Lange]

Fischer looks bored and drunk.

*Looks*? :-)

[Wphile]

There was all sorts of debate, I believe, over what to show and what not to show. Must be some pretty scary stuff in there that we won't see here if this is what they decided to declassify.

Time to go in and get this over with.

BTW, Screw the French.

[Howlin]

Holy toledo!

Powell is giving it to them chapter and verse.

Powell says every statement he makes today is backed up wth proof!

[BADROTOFINGER]

U guys seem to have this well in hand, I think I am gonna go to DU for a good laugh. Shall I come back with a report?
JFK

[aristeides]

Still have a low opinion of NSA?

[cyncooper]

OH! The primary contact from Iraq with Blix is ON the spy committee

Hmmmmmmmmm

Powell: I am presenting solid evidence, solid sources.

[carton253]

It's not conclusions, but facts. Now being backed up.

[John H K]

I suppose Iraq's response will be that we fabricated the tape and conversations, eh?

Probably best response is, if we were going to fake stuff, it would sound better....not this somewhat dull circumstantial stuff....

"Mahmoud, have you hidden the illegal deadly chemical weapons from the inspectors like we talked about earlier" etc.

[areafiftyone]

No I think they were getting it set up. But now its up and running. I posted a breaking news thread HERE

[AFPhys]

HI ALL FRIENDS...

No matter what is said by Powell here, the peaceniks at all cost will not be satisfied. I'm not sure they would be so even if a nuke blew up at their grandmothers' ...

[section9]

They expected us not to listen in?

No. These people work for a thug. An ambitious, dangerous thug, but a thug, nonetheless. As such, their operational security must be comparable to that of a Mob Family at an Italian Social Club gathering.

If Bin Laden were running Iraq, he wouldn't make these mistakes. Fortunately, Binnie is dead.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Darlin']

"Oh Powell is off to a good start"

"We evacuated everything!"

Thst one statement alone should convince them all.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Our DU correspondent?

[Kip Lange]

Oh my. That's a very thick sheaf of papers that Iraqi scientist has.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Are the inspectors supposed to search every house?

[twyn1]

.I don't like other nations knowing how good our spy stuff is...:(

me either, but we're holding stuff back -- I'd love to know what else we have

[Mo1]

This sort of worries me..I don't like other nations knowing how good our spy stuff is...:(

This is NOT the best stuff we have .. you can bet they have better stuff then this ..

Bush and Powell would not give out our best sources

[aristeides]

Fischer looks bored and drunk.

If he's bored, that presumably means he was already aware of this information, probably as a result of briefings U.S. officials have given him. But they didn't persuade him to change his mind, so I doubt if he'll change it now.

[prairiebreeze]

Powell asking if the inspectors have to search all the scientists houses in order to get enough evidence to convince the UN