"I wish I had not been involved in it," says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a longtime Powell adviser who served as his chief of staff from 2002 through 2005. "I look back on it, and I still say it was the lowest point in my life."
Why would such a well respected man with a brilliant career say those things about the intelligence given in regards to Iraq and their wmd capability?
Did he just want to assassinate his own career?
Of course he didn't. Logic dictates that what he presented to the UN was non-sense.
His aide goes on to say, ""(Powell) came through the door ... and he had in his hands a sheaf of papers, and he said, 'This is what I've got to present at the United Nations according to the White House, and you need to look at it,'" Wilkerson says in the program. "It was anything but an intelligence document. It was, as some people characterized it later, sort of a Chinese menu from which you could pick and choose."
Do your best to rationalize it and get back to me.
2007-04-26
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