Powell: Terrorism Report a 'Big Mistake'

[POed_Ex_Repub]

WASHINGTON - A State Department report that incorrectly showed a decline last year in terrorism worldwide was a "big mistake," Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said Sunday. "Very embarrassing. I am not a happy camper over this. We were wrong," the secretary told NBC's "Meet the Press."

Powell said he was working with the CIA (news - web sites), which helped to compile the data, to determine why the errors got into the report. He said he planned a meeting on the issue Monday and that the intelligence agency was working through the weekend in preparation.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040613/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/powell_terror_report&cid=542&ncid=716

[Nlighten1]

1. Why the candor now Colon?

Makes me wonder if he is going to jump ship.

[NC_Nurse]

2. Just another turd

in the bullshit pile!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. From the same people who gave us the daring rescue of Pvt. Lynch...

[buycitgo]

4. jesus......how many "incorrect" reports, inoperative statements?

have they caught up to Nixon, yet?

or already passed him, and nobody knows, cause nobody reports all the lies?

and how bout that new method of relating job creation

what's that site that explains how bogus it is?

moveleft.org?

and have they EVER made a "mistake" that wasn't to their own benefit; one they had to go back and correct that made them look even better?

silly question, I know

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. These people have found that if they keep repeating their lies

often enough and with fervor, the sheeple will believe it.

Christ, 90% of the Repug sheep still believe WMD will be found in Iraq.

[xray s]

10. Correction, sir!

90% of the Repug sheep still believe WMD have been found in Iraq!

[Ilsa]

6. I was listening this morning, and I heard him say

that we "inherited" the problems in Iraq. Yeah, right. More like we stole them and asked for more.

And now they have to admit that we are not safer from terrorism because of Bush.

[Ohio Dem]

7. My favorite line from this article:

"It's a numbers error. It's not a political judgment that said, `Let's see if we can cook the books.' We can't get away with that now. Nobody was out to cook the books. Errors crept in," he told ABC's "This Week."

This implies they used to get away with it all the time.

[regularguy]

15. Noticed this too!

Sure was a lot easier when they could get away with this stuff, I guess...

[oblivious]

17. That's a classic: "We can't get away with that now."

I've filed that one under 'classic quotations'.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

8. Morans.

>... to determine why the errors got into the report.

Um... The errors *were* the report. It's not like somebody forgot to dot an "i" The entire premise was flawed, and obviously so.

[Zomby Woof]

9. Fuck YOU, Colin Powell!

Fuck off the face of the earth, shitstain.

[xray s]

11. Hey Colin! The last four years have been a "big mistake"!

And you, Colin, are one big mistake apologist.

[goforit]

12. Is this his effort at a Colonoscopy just to clear errors up?

LOL!!!!

Better late than never , I say.

[daleo]

13. Not a happy camper because they got caught in another lie

n/t

[FlemingsGhost]

14. This jackass thinks he can still get by on his "good name."

America, do not let this snake slither away.

[Cocoa]

16. thank you Henry Waxman

:toast: