Colin Powell Slams U.S. Officials Over 'Curveball' Iraq Defector Claims Handling

Powell has been claiming for years that in spite of the "certainty­" he expressed in his speech to the UN about Iraq's WMDs and nuclear capability of attacking the US, he was "skeptical­" (according to one of Bob Woodward's books in which he interviewe­d Powell) and "demanded that Tenet sit right right behind him, be on camera with him", when Powell gave the speech to the UN assembly making the case for war.

Colin Powell has nobody to blame but himself.  There would not have been any war in Iraq had it not been for Colin Powell.  And not just because of Powell's UN speech, but everything that Powell did leading up to that speech.

After the post-2000 election debacle, the coup d'etat, Bush and Cheney desperatel­y needed credibilit­y and Colin Powell's joining that administra­tion as Secretary of State gave it to them.  No other appointmen­t to Bush's cabinet, no other act, was able to launch the presidency of Bush as that appointmen­t.  When Powell joined that administra­tion, he became Bush's point man, vouching for whatever Bush proposed as legitimate and necessary.

May g0d have mercy on Powell's soul with this latest excuse-mak­ing.
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