More evidence of doubts on Iraq emerges

[brettdale]

WASHINGTON -- On Jan. 24, 2003, four days before President Bush delivered his State of the Union address presenting the case for war against Iraq, the National Security Council staff put out a call for new intelligence to bolster claims that Saddam Hussein possessed nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons or programs.


http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/05/22/more_evidence_of_doubts_on_iraq_emerges/

[Starfury]

1. Drip...drip...drip... The dam is slowly starting to crack... n/t

[rodeodance]

3. ah, its sister paper-the Globe is now talking of the Downing

street memo---good, now the Bostonians know as well as the new yorkers!!

....The question of prewar intelligence has been thrust back into the public eye with the disclosure of a secret British memo showing that eight months before the March 2003 start of the war, a senior British intelligence official reported to Prime Minister Tony Blair that US intelligence was being shaped to support a policy of invading Iraq.

Moreover, a close reading of the recent 600-page report by the president's commission on intelligence, and the previous report by the Senate panel, shows that as the war approached many US intelligence analysts were internally questioning almost every major piece of prewar intelligence about Saddam's alleged weapons programs.

These included claims that Iraq was trying to obtain uranium in Africa for its nuclear program, had mobile labs for producing biological weapons, ran an active chemical weapons program and possessed unmanned aircraft that could deliver weapons of mass destruction.

All these claims were made by Bush or then-Secretary of State Colin Powell in public addresses even though, the reports made clear, they had yet to be verified by US intelligence agencies.

[aquart]

4. Colin Powell lied his face off.

There were people who still believed Powell even if they had doubts about Georgie. But Powell gave George legitimacy and murdered over 100,000 people with his lie.

I revere Powell with the same deep respect I have for Kissinger, the other war criminal.

[Erika]

5. Colin Powell has been my biggest disappointment

I expected so much more from him.

[oasis]

7. Colin will never live down the lies. He valued his relationship with Bush

over the lives of thousands.:grr:

[Swamp Rat]

6. You got that right!

[rodeodance]

8. you betcha

[applegrove]

2. Around the time somebody threw the text of the speech across a

room and said "this is shit"!