bigpoppanils Posted June 3 Report Share Posted June 3 Powell was under pressure to use shaky intelligence on Iraq: reportFri May 30, 8:42 PM ET Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo! WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) was under persistent pressure from the Pentagon (news - web sites) and White House to include questionable intelligence in his report on Iraq (news - web sites)'s weapons of mass destruction he delivered at the United Nations (news - web sites) last February, a US weekly reported. US News and World Report magazine said the first draft of the speech was prepared for Powell by Vice President Richard Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, in late January. According to the report, the draft contained such questionable material that Powell lost his temper, throwing several pages in the air and declaring, "I'm not reading this. This is bullshit." Cheney's aides wanted Powell to include in his presentation information that Iraq has purchased computer software that would allow it to plan an attack on the United States, an allegation that was not supported by the CIA (news - web sites), US News reported. The White House also pressed Powell to include charges that the suspected leader of the September 11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta, had met in Prague with an Iraqi intelligence officer prior to the attacks, despite a refusal by US and European intelligence agencies to confirm the meeting, the magazine said. The pressure forced Powell to appoint his own review team that met several times with Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites) Director George Tenet and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) to prepare the speech, in which the secretary of state accused Iraq of hiding tonnes of biological and chemical weapons. US News also said that the Defense Intelligence Agency had issued a classified assessment of Iraq's chemical weapons program last September, arguing that "there is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons." However, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress shortly after that that the Iraqi "regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX, sarin, cyclosarin, and mustard gas," according to the report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassa Posted June 5 Report Share Posted June 5 http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/2003/0427lies.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sassa Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 Originally posted by igloo :zzz: :zzz: what's wrong, igloo, can't handle the truth that is staring at you dead in the face? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igloo Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 Originally posted by sassa what's wrong, igloo, can't handle the truth that is staring at you dead in the face? The truth is your are fucking dispisable moron actively rooting for your country to fail....you do not deserve to enjoy anything this country affords you...nothing you piece of shitKeep chasing your baseless conspiracy theories...they will lead you to exactly where you belong...the middle east-with the rest of the US-Israeli conspiracists....Don't you ever tire of being a rotted twat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr mahs Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 Originally posted by sassa what's wrong, igloo, can't handle the truth that is staring at you dead in the face? Amazing how she doesn't beleive ANYTHING in the media except of course, it's a negative report ragarding the U.S.I hope they deport her! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassa Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 funny how you little boys can't come up with counterarguments that don't include insults....you'd get nowhere if this was the real world... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr mahs Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 Originally posted by sassa funny how you little boys can't come up with counterarguments that don't include insults....you'd get nowhere if this was the real world... Where do you work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassa Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 Originally posted by mr mahs Where do you work? none of your business Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr mahs Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 Originally posted by sassa none of your business Why not? You asked me where I was educated and I told you that and where I work. You told me I wouldn't get anywhere in the real world so I was just wondering what role YOU have in the "Real World". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassa Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 Originally posted by mr mahs Why not? You asked me where I was educated and I told you that and where I work. You told me I wouldn't get anywhere in the real world so I was just wondering what role YOU have in the "Real World". i never asked you where you work. you could work in a garbage dump for all i care. all i asked you was where you obtained your education. that is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr mahs Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 Originally posted by sassa i never asked you where you work. you could work in a garbage dump for all i care. all i asked you was where you obtained your education. that is all. Ok. what field are you in? Do you work or are you just going to school? honestly, I just want to know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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