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Originally posted by Undertoad
I believed the Powell presentation.
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Even though Hans Blix demonstrated Powell's half truths? If Colin Powell was so accurate, then all that soil removed from a chemical weapons site is located somewhere else. Just tell inspectors and they will confirm it. But Powell could not do full disclosure since the soil might prove him wrong. After all, the Powell presentation provided no facts - just implied that a coverup was in progress. Only fact presented - they moved soil to another location. What does that prove? That Iraq moved soil - nothing more. Powell says that proves WMD were made there. Nonsense.
Not one Powell example proved anything. Every example would not be sufficient evidence in a court of law. But some will agree with the mental midget Geroge Jr no matter what the reality.
Hans Blix blew out one of Powell's examples by demonstrating that the WMD site was instead an Iraqi declared site. That decontamination truck was more typically a maintenance truck. Once real world days were applied to Powell's presentation, then the 'day before' coverup disappears. Those pictures were fiction - were of events weeks apart. Powell lied.
Many western reporters went to another rumored site of biologoical warfare in N Iraq. Normally, western reporters were denied access by a vigilanty group that controls the area. Powell gave wrong location for those buildings. But then reporters found the buildings some 30 miles away - and no indication of any such WMD production. Did Powell lie? Western reporter could find nothing of what Powell had claimed.
Powell's statement were only to empower those who blindly worship this president. Powell's presentation provided no facts - in contrast to Adlai Stevenson during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Powell proved no existance of any WMD. But he did prove that American intelligence was about as accurate as "6 Arab Terrorists sneaking into NY State from Canada".
The only way UT can believe Powell is to want to believe it no matter what. Powell provided some indications. But as more news reports are arriving, Powell's presentation is more like what was used to justify an attack on a factory in Sudan. Fiction.