Saturday, April 03, 2004


Yahoo! News - Powell Says Key Intelligence Piece on Iraq Flawed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged on Friday that the "most dramatic" part of his presentation to the United Nations making the case for war on Iraq was based on flawed intelligence.

Powell also said he hoped a commission investigating the U.S. intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction would reveal how the CIA ended up depending on unreliable sources for key evidence he used to argue for war.

The acknowledgment about alleged mobile chemical arms laboratories could further hurt the credibility of the Bush administration, also under fire in an election year for failing to stop the Sept. 11 attacks.

Take a good look everyone. This may be as close as we get to an admission that the justification for this war was built on unreliable sources.

"I hope (the commission) will look into these matters to see whether or not the intelligence agency had a basis for the confidence that they placed in the intelligence at that time," he said.

And then we'll just blame the CIA.