{"id":30619,"date":"2018-02-07T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30619"},"modified":"2018-02-07T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T16:00:13","slug":"lie-after-lie-what-colin-powell-knew-about-iraq-15-years-ago-and-what-he-told-the-u-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30619","title":{"rendered":"Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew About Iraq 15 Years Ago and What He Told the U.N."},"content":{"rendered":"
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LIE AFTER LIE: WHAT COLIN POWELL KNEW ABOUT IRAQ 15 YEARS AGO AND WHAT HE TOLD THE U.N.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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COLIN POWELL DELIVERED<\/u>\u00a0his presentation making the case for war with Iraq\u00a0at the United Nations\u00a015 years ago, on February 5, 2003.<\/p>\n

As much criticism as Powell received for this \u2014 he\u2019s\u00a0called it<\/a> \u201cpainful\u201d and something that will \u201calways be a part of my record\u201d \u2014 it hasn\u2019t been close to what\u2019s justified. Powell, who was secretary of state under President George W. Bush, was much more than just horribly mistaken: He fabricated \u201cevidence\u201d and ignored repeated warnings that what he was saying was false.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Congress never investigated Powell\u2019s use of the intelligence he was given, so we don\u2019t know many of the specifics. Even so, what did\u00a0reach\u00a0the public record in other ways is extremely damning. While the corporate media has never taken a close look at this record, we can go through Powell\u2019s presentation line by line to demonstrate the chasm between what he knew and what he told the world. As you\u2019ll see, there\u2019s quite a lot to say about it.<\/p>\n

Powell\u2019s speech can be found on the State Department website here<\/a>. All other sources are linked below.<\/p>\n

Public Certainty, Private Doubt<\/strong><\/p>\n

On that February 5 in front of the U.N. Security Council, was Colin Powell certain what he was saying was accurate? He certainly was:<\/p>\n

POWELL: My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we\u2019re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Later, regarding whether Iraq had reconstituted a nuclear weapons program, he said:<\/p>\n

POWELL: There is no doubt in my mind \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo: Thomas Monaster\/NY Daily News Archive\/ Getty Images LIE AFTER LIE: WHAT COLIN POWELL KNEW ABOUT IRAQ 15 YEARS AGO AND WHAT HE TOLD THE U.N. COLIN POWELL DELIVERED\u00a0his presentation making the case for war with Iraq\u00a0at the United Nations\u00a015 years ago, on February 5, 2003. As much criticism as Powell received for this \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14274,442,13659,2864,5567,826],"class_list":["post-30619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-colin-powell","tag-iraq","tag-jon-schwarz","tag-lies","tag-the-intercept","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30620,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30619\/revisions\/30620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}