Doug Pensinger wrote: > Colin Powell's speech to the U.N., a watershed in the > drumbeat to war, > spends all but a few minutes presenting evidence for WMDs. Hussein's > brutality is almost an afterthought: > http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/17300.htm. In fact the Bush > administration only pushed the "brutal regime" angle over the last > month or so prior to the conflict and it was never a primary > reason for > going to war until after it was over and everyone became aware that > there might not be any WMDs.
He had a lot to say about Al-quaeda and Iraq too.It is interesting to note that almost 2 years before that U.N. speech, this is what he said: "Sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction ... And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors." http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/933.htm I wonder what changed in those two years... Ritu _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
