Sunday, May 16, 2004
Powell steps up his little war on the DoD & Cheney
Powell publicly states what was surely conventional wisdom among most real experts back before the war started:
He's just a year and half and several thousand lives late.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said for the first time on Sunday that he now believes that the Central Intelligence Agency was deliberately misled about evidence that Saddam Hussein was developing unconventional weapons.
He also said, in his comments on the NBC News program "Meet the Press," that he regrets citing evidence that Iraq had mobile biological laboratories in his presentation to the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003.
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"Basically, Powell now believes that the Iraqis had chemical weapons, and that was it,' said an official close to him. 'And he is out there publicly saying this now because he doesn't want a legacy as the man who made up stories to provide the president with cover to go to war.'"
He's just a year and half and several thousand lives late.
