quotes show Colin Powell Lied to the U.S. and the U.N.

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

September 24, 2003

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/09/24_powell.html

Did Colin Powell Lie to the U.S. and the U.N.?
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

Below are two excerpts from speeches given by Colin Powell. The first in 2001, in which he asserts Iraq could not possibly have weapons of mass destruction, and the second in 2003, two years later, asserting that Iraq had plenty of weapons of mass destruction.

And now we know they haven't found any weapons of mass destruction, just like Colin said in 2001.

Did Colin Powell lie to the U.S. and the U.N.?

(does a bear shit in the woods)

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Press Remarks with Foreign Minister of Egypt Amre Moussa

Secretary Colin L. Powell
Cairo, Egypt (Ittihadiya Palace)
February 24, 2001

"...the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq, and these are policies that we are going to keep in place, but we are always willing to review them to make sure that they are being carried out in a way that does not affect the Iraqi people but does affect the Iraqi regime's ambitions and the ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and we had a good conversation on this issue."

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/933.htm

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Full text of Colin Powell's speech
US secretary of state's address to the United Nations security council

February 5, 2003

Indeed, the facts and Iraq's behavior show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction.

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Numerous human sources tell us that the Iraqis are moving not just documents and hard drives, but weapons of mass destruction, to keep them from being found by inspectors.

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We also have satellite photos that indicate that banned materials have recently been moved from a number of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction facilities.

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We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction; he's determined to make more.

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/17300.htm


A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS