Good call, seems needed.Kmarion wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/05/sprj.irq.powell.transcript/
Since people seem to have forgotten exactly what it was he said.
Also some background on the presentation
As for the endorsement, it's a little surprising (as he is a republican) and he has said that "either of them would make a good president""(Powell) came through the door ... and he had in his hands a sheaf of papers, and he said, 'This is what I've got to present at the United Nations according to the White House, and you need to look at it,'" Wilkerson says in the program. "It was anything but an intelligence document. It was, as some people characterized it later, sort of a Chinese menu from which you could pick and choose."
Wilkerson and Powell spent four days and nights in a CIA conference room with then-Director George Tenet and other top officials trying to ensure the accuracy of the presentation, Wilkerson says.
"There was no way the Secretary of State was going to read off a script about serious matters of intelligence that could lead to war when the script was basically un-sourced," Wilkerson says.
In one dramatic accusation in his speech, Powell showed slides alleging that Saddam had bioweapons labs mounted on trucks that would be almost impossible to find.
"In fact, Secretary Powell was not told that one of the sources he was given as a source of this information had indeed been flagged by the Defense Intelligence Agency as a liar, a fabricator," says David Kay, who served as the CIA's chief weapons inspector in Iraq after the fall of Saddam. That source, an Iraqi defector who had never been debriefed by the CIA, was known within the intelligence community as "Curveball."
I heard he said he didn't want a republican to choose the next two supreme court justices... (?) Interesting.
It's a big deal to me, someone mentioned above some people actually thought Powell should run for prez. I was one of them. That was before he became quite as stigmatized as he is now, by some. I never slammed him even after the "presentation", and still have respect for him.
