For a guy who once had an actual ounce or two of self-respect, Colin "My Lai" Powell has certainly lived up to his nickname (at least the one I have given him..."My Lai" for his staff weenie cover up of the My Lai Massacre). Ol' Colin has to be feeling the sliminess of the santorum left on his asshole from the literal buttfucking the 1600 Crew gave him for four shit-stained years culminating in his performance at the UN, babbling about non-existant bogeymen in the Iraqi desert while the world looked on thinking "What an idiot". Now it comes out (and was this the report that the 1600 Crew kept under wraps just before the election?)
A special presidential commission reported today that the U.S. intelligence community was "dead wrong" when it overstated pre-war Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and today knows "disturbingly little" about the weapons programs and intentions of U.S. adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea.
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For example, the report notes, before the speech by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to the United Nations Security Council in February 2003, the CIA failed to provide information "casting serious doubt on the reliability" of intelligence about Iraq's alleged mobile biological facilities initially obtained from an Iraqi defector.
The analysts who helped prepare Powell's speech were unaware that, as the commission's report puts it, the defector was "lying" and that he was the single source for that information, which became a central feature of Powell's presentation.
To be a little bit fair to Cornhole Colin, both Crashcart and Doug Feith were spending inordinate amounts of time at the CIA and other intel organizations threatening to have junior-level analysts sleep with the fishes if they did not provide favorable intel for Preznit Yellow Stripe's invasion of Iraq. But ol' My Lai could've been a four-star man and stood up to them and told them to fuck off and not gone to the UN. Someone of his former stature calling bullshit then might have meant that 1500+ Americans and countless Iraqi's might be alive today.
It's pure neocon bullshit that we're better off with Saddam in jail...we spent 20-plus years selling him shit, or allowing our allies to sell him military shit (Exocet...Stark...boom). If he had not put Preznit 41's face on the floor of the al-Rashid hotel, he and his kids would probably still be getting paid by the CIA to send agents into Iran, and still be buying oilfield supplies and services from CheneyBurton International, to whom a dollar is still a dollar... nice to see they're giving up their bidness in Iran only what, three years after being declared part of the Axis of Evil Weasels by Beloved Leader?
posted by Jo Fish on 03.31.05 at 05:06 PM
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Loyalty to a President is not necessarily the same as patriotism is it Colin?
posted by: Shag from Brookline on 04.01.05 at 06:17 AM [permalink]
