WMD evidence "deliberately misleading" - Powell

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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8164

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United States Secretary of State Colin Powell says some of the intelligence and evidence of banned weapons that he was fed were "deliberately misleading".

Powell said he was "very concerned" about how the CIA prepared him ahead of his now-infamous UN speech in February 2003 that made the US case for war with Iraq.

"It turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and, in some cases, deliberately misleading," he told NBC's Meet the Press.

"And for that, I am disappointed and I regret it," he added.
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I can deal with misinformation being fed to the top as an excuse for where we are, but where I work, deliberate misinformation usually ends up in people getting sacked for making managers looks stupid, and incorrect decisions made.

Should we be seeing some of this ??

Another part of the article that I agree with

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But he also blasted Arab leaders angry about Abu Ghraib for not showing outrage over the beheading of Nick Berg by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, "one of the worst terrorists on the face of the Earth".

"I would like to have seen a much higher level of outrage throughout the world, and especially the Arab world," he said.
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Personally, I think they should have canned the director of the CIA and some of his subordinates. I don't know why Bush stuck with him
 
Well, looky looky here.
Sarin shell explodes in Iraq
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This article suggests that Powell's complaint was not so much about a conspiracy on the US side, but a manipulation of the US by the Iraq side. Tough to confirm and verify "secret" information, but that is the CIA's job.

"Current and former U.S. officials, including David Kay, the former chief weapons inspector in Iraq, have said that most of the evidence came from an Iraqi defector code-named “Curveball.”

According to newspaper accounts, U.S. officials didn't know the defector's name until after the war, when they learned that he was a brother of one of the top aides of Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi exile who was an important advocate for the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Kay has said that Curveball was a "downright swindler," and charged that the case suggested "a lack of due diligence and care" by U.S. officials."

[ May 17, 2004, 11:11 AM: Message edited by: darryld13 ]
 
When we have the best financed, armed and most techologically equiped army in the world it's hard to keep the boys tied up in training sessions for too long. Every once in a while men and equipment need to be tested, careers advanced, and fortunes made. Not one person involved with 911 or the Iraq WMD issue has been fired. Do we really want no fault government? We must really question our need to constantly wage war while our domestic issues such as healthcare, social security, financial stability, education, get the short end for funding and attention. It's a guns or butter issue, does anyone feel more secure these days?
 
Curveball is not the only outright swindler. Chalabi himself is one, and was known to be one before we deliberately got in bed with him. Last I heard he was still on our payroll. It is not like we were manipulated against our better judgement.
 
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