Powell says prewar intelligence wasn't `cooked'

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday defended the decision to go to war with Iraq, saying intelligence before the U.S.-led invasion not ''cooked'' even though inspectors have not found banned weapons.

''We may not find the stockpiles. They may not exist any longer, but let's not suggest that we knew this,'' Powell said on ABC's ''This Week.''

''We went to the United Nations, we went to the world, with the best information we had. Nothing that was cooked,'' he said.

With this Friday marking the one-year anniversary of the invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein, Powell and other Bush administration officials appeared on the Sunday talk shows to defend the war and call attention to advances in rebuilding the country.

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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/074/wash/Powell_says_prewar_intelligenc:.shtml

[kalian]

1. No? Hmmm...then....

it might have been RAW and still not up for "consumption"...

What an idiot. :mad:

[devinsgram]

17. What a whore

At one time I admired this man, but just like the rest he sold his soul to the devil.:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[ewagner]

2. Maybe somebody should ask

Colin if holidng up the pseudo vial of anthrax in the UN wasn't a little "over-the-top?"

At worst he lied.

At best he played drama queen.

We're letting him off too easy.

[htuttle]

3. You, he's right in a way. It wasn't cooked, it was 'raw'

Raw intelligence, as in 'consumed without analysis or vetting'.

...or as we say around here, "I saw it spray painted on a wall somewhere, so it must be true."

[frank frankly]

40. DUer makes the Pundit Pap at American Politics Journal

nice work, htuttle!

:hi:

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20040314punditpap.html

Steph then shifted to the failure to find WMDs in Iraq -- and Ted Kennedy's charge that there is a "credibility gap." Powell gave the mandatory "That's what we believed, the intelligence was not cooked" boilerplate answer. (One wag over at Democratic Underground said that's true -- they selected "raw" intelligence that had not been subject to proper review and voilà! WMDs in Iraq)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. It was tossed with a vinagrette? (n/t)

[hang a left]

26. was not bp

It was baked in a souffle, and served with a side of roasted bs.

[The Zanti Regent]

5. This liar has NO credibility.

Powell is incapable of telling the truth about anything. Everytime he opens his mouth he PROVES bryound the shodow of a doubt that he is a liar.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. If I were Powell, I'd back off this defense...

Greg Thielmann has been making the talk show rounds, decimating Powell's defense of the State Dept's handling of Iraq intelligence:

CBS News: The Man Who Knew

[GOPisEvil]

7. Sorry Colin...you are a liar.

I believe Karen Kwiatkowski over you.

Your pitiful performance at the UN last February will mark your low point.

[Mel]

36. speaking of Karen

a caller got in this morning on Washington Journal C-Span and suggested Kwiatkowski as a guest. The host seemed to agree with the caller so maybe we will see her on C-Span sometime soon? :shrug:

I say, Powell is a liar, if not that means he isn't very smart, or is it just both?

[0007]

46. I think we will see Kwiatkowski very soon -

[boobooday]

8. Gently Sauteed

And served up with a side of pure BULLSHIT!

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[hang a left]

27. just got down to your post

after i recorded mine. tee hee

[suegeo]

9. Powell has sure been chatty lately

There's this story, earlier the claim that we weren't mistreating prisons at Gitmo, and earlier than that something else he said that I don't remember.

Powell has NO CREDIBILITY.

[rocktivity]

10. No, it wasn't cooked--it was completely fabricated

They made up their own little Office of Special Plans, bypassed the CIA, and came up with the results King George wanted!

:headbang:
rocknation

[JohnyCanuck]

11. It wasn't just cooked,

it was shreded, blended, puréed, sautéed, boiled, steamed, fricasseed, baked and deep fried before being served up to the admiring oohs and aahs of the assembled slobbering media whores with a bright juicy apple stuck in its mouth.

[asjr]

16. Johnny Canuck

That is priceless!

[JohnyCanuck]

41. I forgot flambéed as well n/t

n/t

[PATRICK]

42. Half-baked so trechnically

Powell was right. It wasn't properly cooked.

[FreakinDJ]

12. HORSE SHIT

WROTE THE LIAR MYSELF tOLD HIM THERE WERE NO WEAPONS

1000s of us here at DU wrote Emails daily to any one we thought would listen. We pointed out documents like UNISCOM's report of the debriefing of Gen. Kemmel. Even the inspectors now admitt there has not been WMDs in Iraq since 1994


Over 1,000,000 protesters in Washington had the same message. Even the UN decided not to back the phony evidence

We need to write the media and tell them not to buy into yet another lie

[donsu]

13. I want to see Powell behind bars

nt

[dennis4868]

14. Powell's own Intelligence....

agency in the State Department (INR) warned Powell before the war about the very questionable "evidence" of WMD in Iraq. Yet, Powell and others would tell the country that Saddam no doubt is a threat.....sheeesh! I only wish the US Media would wake up from their 3 years of sleeping and question this WH like they should!

[Dudley_DUright]

15. This from a guy that said about some of the so called "intelligence"

that the OSP cretins wanted him to use: "I am not saying this, this is bullshit". Actually the large majority of what he did say at the UN was also BS.

[dennis4868]

18. How does....

Powell explain his statement in February 2001 when he said that "Iraq was contained and does not pose a threat" to anyone.....

[Warren Stuart]

19. Powell saw no problem with My Lai either.

Sooner or later his past is going to catch up with him.

[salinen]

20. Remember kids

lying about WMD's and sending people to death is not as wrong as boinking an intern.

[F.Gordon]

21. If the intelligence wasn't "cooked"....

..then why does he feel the need to say this? And he contradicts himself here...

First he says; ''We went to the United Nations, we went to the world, with the best information we had. Nothing that was cooked,''

Then he goes on to describe the "intelligence" they did have...Powell said most of the intelligence ''was not wrong. We had a country that had the intention to have such weapons, that had the capability of having such weapons, they had the infrastructure for such weapons.''

This would be like busting someone for drugs, even though they don't have any drugs. ...but we bust them because we felt they intended on buying drugs, they had the money to pay for the drugs, and they (edit: HAD) tools that might be used to consume drugs.

This isn't "intelligence". It's speculation. And that little dog and pony show Powell put on in the UN didn't focus on speculation.

[ben_thayer]

22. So, he's admitting it was Half-Baked...?

:evilgrin:

[acmavm]

23. No, it's Bowel that 'half-baked'.

.

[Malva Zebrina]

24. He made such a fool out of himself before the UN , what else can he say?

He continues to look like an ass and say things that are foolish. Defending the slaughter in Iraq is not exactly commendable. He also defended the coward in chief, and said, while testifying before the congressional budget committe, that Bush has lots of allies who support him and his occupation. Would he have us think he, the Secy of State was also bamboozled and fooled by little, inept people who had not the intelligence resources the mighty military machine of the US does?

They will keep this up as long as they can get away with it. Never admit to a mistake, never admit you were wrong. Defend Hitler if that is what it takes, and believe me, if it were necessary I think Bush, Cheney, Powell and Rice and all the rest of them would do so if, by some bizarre twist of fate, it meant saving their own necks.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

25. This spew coming from the same guy that tried to cover-up My Lai.

[emulatorloo]

28. "fried," then, in Exxon Oil and British Petroleum

Crispy on the outside, and soft in the center.

I kept thinking that CP would quit or be fired, but he is pretty clearly one of them.

[Jacobin]

29. Okay, then "sauteed?"

microwaved? Grilled? Poached? Stir fried?

It definitely had something done to it.

[JetCityLiberal]

30. The more they talk about it the more they lie

I do believe that more and more people are seeing that this is just a cover up.

Why did b*sh not have an anniversary party to celebrate his war?

The b*sh administration has so much to cover up they have no time to help the people of this country.

Vote b*sh and the rest of the right out!

JetCityLiberal

[abelenkpe]

31. liar, liar....

who would believe anything this administration says anymore?

[cliss]

32. Over the years,

Powell's beautiful cafe-au-lait skin has become progressively whiter. He's just becoming a little bit more like them every day.

[PassingFair]

33. I have a dream!

That Rove will idiotically decide that Cheney is a liability (re: Halliburton), and try to replace him with Bowell. He is, by some reports the 'Pukes own 1st choice for VP.

His lack of credibility will be a secondary consideration in the firestorm of latent bigotry that will churn up from the vicious underbelly of the 'Puke organization.

Bring him On! I have a dream....

[ixion]

34. and Powell lies yet again

just like he lied his a** off in front of the UN and the entire world.

[monobrau]

35. OK, "Chef"

Chef Powell insists he only uses the freshest ingredients, with no additives or filler!

[beanball]

37. Powell

you are just another one of the crooks with the Bush gang.

[Postman]

38. Yes massa, I's do as I's told in lyin' for y'all

no offense meant toward my fellow African-American DUers -just trying to put a spin on the "house" boy Powell not taking a stand against the very people who wouldn't think twice about denying him his civil rights.

[Kinkistyle]

39. Stick a fork in him.

Cause him and the whole Bush crime ring are done.

[yellowcanine]

43. That is exactly what we are suggesting, Colin

"but let's not suggest that we knew this"

The evidence is pretty clear.
Can you refute it?
I Thought not.

[truthspeaker]

48. "let's not suggest that we knew this"

I suggest that they should have known; Hans Blix and Scott Ritter knew.

[blackspade]

44. No not cooked...

more like half baked with lemon butter
and a side of sour grapes.

jerks.

[0007]

45. He helped cook the intelligence, got busted lying, got laughed at

by the whole world, and still has the audacity to say nothing was cooked?

[daleo]

47. Parse his words carefully

He just means that no documents, tape recordings, hard drives, etc. were actually baked in an oven, or heated up in a microwave, or boiled in a pressure cooker, or seared over a bar-b-que, or ....

However, all this will be done soon to any documents that they locate in Iraq that implicate Bush II, Bush I, Ronnie, Rummy, etc. in Saddam's doings.

[matcom]

49. what, he prefers his intelligence Well Done? Medium?

did he send it back to be put on a little longer?

was it raw?

did it make him sick?

:shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

50. It sure made me ill...

:puke:

[snippy]

51. It was sliced and diced, then marinated in greed and dishonesty.

Served with a glass of young, vibrant fear and deception. For dessert, billion dollar contracts complemented by a glass of deep, rich blood of hundreds of Americans and thousands of innocent Iraqis.