Now that Colin Powell is finally speaking out to stop the disaster that escalation would entail, it puts Colin Powell's role in disseminating the NeoCon's fabrications about Iraq to start this War into sharp focus.
It's almost four years since Colin Powell made his infamous speech to the U.N. about Iraq. A speech full of fabrications. Three days after Powell's speech I started a dissusion the London Independent's website (included there by by the Independent's web editors) anout Powell's speech titled "Powell's Deception". It became a heated discussion that lasted for many weeks.
Tonight PBS re-ran the NOW story from early 2006 on Powell's longtime Deputy Col. Wilkerson and how he became a part the "HOAX" on all of the member countries of the U.N., and American People.
Powell’s then Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson says that what he later found out shocked him: that much of Powell’s speech was false. "I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community, and the United Nations Security Council," he says.
NOW
Those who started this disastrous war in Iraq under false pretextes should never be trusted to escalate it.
... former Secretary of State Colin Powell's landmark speech to the United Nations, an administration insider who helped write it makes a startling claim: that he participated in a hoax. That insider, Lawrence Wilkerson, and former UN weapons inspectorHans Blix are among the voices in NOW's report into pre-war intelligence. Investigate some of the intelligence documents under discussion below.
Iraq Pre-War Intelligence
Commision on Intelligence