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ung
This sunday at 8:00pm, CNN will air "Dead Wrong - Inside an intelligence meltdown".

I doubt that this will present anything that hasn't been discussed and/or unearthed before. But it will give proof to many of the contentions that have been ignored or swept aside on purpose by many people.

Here's an excerpt from CNN.com...

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A former top aide to Colin Powell says his involvement in the former secretary of state's presentation to the United Nations on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was \"the lowest point\" in his life.

\"I wish I had not been involved in it,\" says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a longtime Powell adviser who served as his chief of staff from 2002 through 2005. \"I look back on it, and I still say it was the lowest point in my life.\"

\"(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.\"

The stoey can be found at this webpage

[ August 19, 2005, 03:05 PM: Message edited by: ung ]
fantomas
I'm looking forward to the documentary, but I have to ask, why in the hell didn't that Wilkerson person speak out when he had the chance? Why didn't Powell? Why did they enable the mess that has occurred? It was easy for many people to dismiss the likes of John DiIulio, Lawrence Lindsay, Richard Clarke, Paul O'Neill, etc., but I think Colin Powell possessed another level of credibility with the American public, and his vocal opposition, along with that of his deputies, might have slowed or even stopped the rush to war.
ung
not when you're a part of the administration.

And as you will see when you see the report tomorrow... many of the lies and the true scope of how wrong the facts were did not come out until after the war was under way. Many of the facts were given to Powell and his staff in face to face meetings with other senior admin officials (George Tenet, etc) so he took them at face value. But then the facts began to unravel one at a time. It caused a great rift in the cabinet as you saw by the many defections from the 1st to the 2nd term.
Mahaney
A nice summary of the how we ended up in the war with Iraq. It's on again Sunday at 8pm (est?)

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/presents/i...dead.wrong.html
RazorbackTX
"Dead wrong" pretty much sums it up and the number of dead keeps growing.
Mahaney
I can't figure out why the repubs can't see it.
millerbeach
It's the Kool-Aid and brainwashing. GWB has them all in a trance, just like zombies. Watch out when they finally wake up....they will be really cranky, especially when they find their Repub-coma has cost their grandchildren so dearly. Some family values.
fantomas
I think they've never gotten over the fact that their hero let 9/11 happen and sat around looking utterly befuddled, with a children's book in his lap as thousands died in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania--that was such a shock to their systems that they haven't been able to step out of their sleepwalking trances.
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