Powell Denies He Was Out of Loop on Iraq

[maddezmom]

Powell Denies He Was Out of Loop on Iraq

Monday April 19, 2004 9:46 PM


By BARRY SCHWEID

AP Diplomatic Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Denying he was out of the loop or hesitant about taking on Saddam Hussein, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday he was committed to President Bush's war plan in the event diplomacy failed at the United Nations last year.

``I was as committed as anyone else to seeing an end to this regime, the destruction of this regime that put people in mass graves,'' Powell told The Associated Press in an interview.

Disputing an account by Bob Woodward in a new book, ``Plan of Attack,'' Powell said Bush and all his national security advisers had agreed in August 2002 to ask the U.N. Security Council to seek a peaceful resolution and to go to war if the effort failed.

Powell dismissed Woodward's suggestion that Bush already had made up his mind by Jan. 11 last year to go to war against Iraq and that Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar, had been informed of the decision that day.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3995963,00.html

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Good...

Can we all stop talking about how great Powell is now?

[still_one]

2. He also said his statements to the UN were false

[Wickerman]

3. If this weren't my country and the safety of the whole world at stake

it would be funny. These nimrods are such a trainwreck. I've never seen such a group fighting to make sure their necks are in the noose.

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. Sounds to me that Woodward just made up....................

the whole book. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Interesting.

[goforit]

13. Yah..LOL!!!......He's making Clark look even better!!!

Woodward?.........What a putz

Powell?...........a double putz

[Just Me]

5. He's a career military industrialist.

I knew he would do this,...he sold his soul sometime ago.

I doubt he will recoup that.

[bluedog]

6. just release the tapes

that should prove it..whos lying that is

[wolfgirl]

7. Notice how Powell

phrased his response. He is issuing a denial, but NOT of what Woodward has alleged...Read his response again!

[maddezmom]

9. yeah, I did notice that...denial, but not of the charges

interesting isn't it.

[LittleApple81]

11. But he admits they talked to Bandar showing documents that

should not be accessible to foreigners... so he is also part of breaking the rules in there, isn't he?

[truthisfreedom]

8. interested in the destruction of a regime that put Iraqis in mass graves?

vote for Kerry this fall.

[ablbodyed]

10. I watched 60 Minutes last night....

These people are TRAITORS. Chaney may be certifiable (probably the defense that will be used to argue against execution.) Bush is a smirking thug who cites God as his source of action. Garbage crew: execute them all: every drop of blood is on their 'souls' or what is at the center of each one of them: a rat turd.
I'm angry and terrified of their absolute sense of rightousness and contempt for anyone' elses's opinion, but their own.

[Kool Kitty]

12. After hearing all of this,

the report in front of the UN, the info that Bandar knew before he did, it occurs to me that I believe if Powell has one shred of self-respect left, he should resign. And he should resign as soon as possible. He has no honor or dignity left. And I would think that he would no longer be effective as an envoy to other nations.

[Malva Zebrina]

14. Isn't it time that Powell just quit

Obviously he is null and void. He is obviously ruined. Is it because of Michael that he stays around as the bat boy?

Condi Rice also should be ruined but for some reason she has emerged as a "strong woman" instead of a stupid bat boy with a Fudd degree.

[librechik]

15. that proves how far out of the loop he is.

ha ha. They reassured him that he was also told before the Shrub's other best friend, Bandar! what a moran.

[Disturbed]

16. Woodward and Powell

worked this out right from the beginning.
This book is actually not what people on the left
thought it was at 1st. Having read excerpts and commentary
about the essential points this book does not hurt BushCorpse at
all. Everything that seems damaging to Bush will be spun to the advantage of the Right Wing.