"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 03:38:30 · 9 answers · asked by Josh 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Claymore, did you work in Military Intel in the Marines or did I?
Oh yeah, it was me who worked MI and Counterintelligence for 6 years in the Marines.
Common source are used. They are then checked out to see if the information is good or not.
You think we'd send teams of Force Recon into Iraq during the Gulf War w/o checking our sources first?
You are clueless. If you don't know what you're talking about, kindly STFU.
2007-04-26 03:49:21 · update #1
He said it because he is an intelligent man who maintained his morals and ethics. I hated to see him go, but applaud him for standing strong.
2007-04-26 03:46:22 · answer #1 · answered by leslie 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In 21 months, Bush will be a historical oddity and folks like Powell, stand up folks, will spill the beans about what really happened with the run up to the war. It will be interesting to finally hear some truth about these amateurs and buffoons who got us into this horror.
2007-04-26 10:47:30 · answer #2 · answered by iwasnotanazipolka 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"It was anything but an intelligence document". Yeah, Scooter Libby wrote the first draft of Powell's United Nations presentation!
2007-04-26 10:43:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gee and I thought the low point in his life would have been either telling the press nothing had happened at My Lai
or
Working in the Basement of the White House with Ollie North running an illegal war
2007-04-26 10:42:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I feel sorry for the guy, hes a good man.. caught up in the bushie's web of lies.
2007-04-26 11:01:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes! That's realistic mind.
2007-04-26 10:44:48 · answer #6 · answered by mushtaqehind 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Inventing justification to invade a sovereign nation, sounds so republican.
2007-04-26 10:45:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The simplist rationalization is that he spoke the truth.
2007-04-26 10:41:59 · answer #8 · answered by justa 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Did you know that almost 75% of the information used in intelligence findings at Langley come from common sources? When you figure out how that applies.. ask another question.
2007-04-26 10:45:32 · answer #9 · answered by claymore 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋