Colin Powell Lied to the UN: Following Orders Is No Excuse
Colin Powell is an instrument of white supremacy and Amerikkkan imperialism. This is the sad truth. The business of Amerikkka is not business at all but war and global domination. Since the Amerikkkan civil war nothing has driven this corrupt country and it's economy faster than perpetual war. Amerikkka needs a reason to spend money - and without war they can't justify spending it which is why they told countless lies to the public with a straight face so they could illegally invade Iraq - to send my nephew off to a bogus war he did not want to fight so other rich white people can get richer.
Powell is a component of the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld crime syndicate. Having said that what makes Powell any different than the others? How can anyone believe Colin Powell would make a suitable VP candidate? And how can anyone be an opponent of white supremacy and Amerikkan imperialism but support Colin Powell - a shill of white supremacy and Amerikkkan imperialism?
I'm out.
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Speech #1: On February 6th, 2003, one week after the SOTU, Colin Powell made his dramatic presentation to the UN. The speech outlined the imminent danger we and the world faced from Saddam Hussein. After insisting on the existence of huge stockpiles of horrific chemical and biological weapons, Powell turned his attention to Iraq’s nuclear weapon capability.
Part seven of the presentation, was titled Nuclear Weapons. Here, Powell made no attempt to minimize the nuclear capability alluded to by George Bush in his ominous warning about the uranium purchase in Niger. In fact, in this segment Colin Powell used the word “nuclear’ TWENTY TWO times!
Among the chilling statements made by Powell are the following:
We have no indication that Saddam Hussein has ever abandoned his nuclear weapons program.
We have more than a decade of proof that he remains determined to acquire nuclear weapons.
Saddam Hussein already possesses two out of the three key components needed to build a nuclear bomb.
Since 1998, his efforts to reconstitute his nuclear program have been focused on acquiring the third and last component, sufficient fissile material to produce a nuclear explosion.
Saddam Hussein is determined to get his hands on a nuclear bomb.
Enter, the Spoilers: On March 7th, 2003 Colin Powell, once again, came before the Security Council to prove to the world that an immediate war against Iraq was the only way to deal with Saddam Hussein! His speech was to follow reports by Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix and Mohammed El Baradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEI).
Dr. Blix spoke first. He informed the Council that substantial disarmament was taking place in Iraq, and asked for more time for inspections. Then it was Dr. Baradei’s turn. The cameras in the chamber captured Colin Powell’s growing concern as Dr, Baradei stated the following:
Based on thorough analysis, the IAEA has concluded with the concurrence of outside experts that these documents which formed the basis for the report of recent uranium transaction between Iraq and Niger are in fact not authentic. We have therefore concluded that these specific allegations are unfounded.
There is no indication that Iraq has attempted to import aluminum tubes for use in centrifuge enrichment. Moreover, even had Iraq pursued such a plan, it would have encountered practical difficulties in manufacturing centrifuge out of the aluminum tubes in question.
Iraq's use of 81 mm aluminum tubes was for reverse engineering of imported rockets, not for use in centrifuges to enrich uranium
Dr, Baradei, in a hushed chamber, concluded with these words:
After three months of intrusive inspections, we have to date found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapon program in Iraq.
Speech #2 – the Ad Lib: Those who watched Colin Powell prepare to speak after Mohammed El Baradei rested his case, saw a very distressed man. They also saw an angry man. What they probably also were looking at was a worried man.
When it was time for Colin Powell to address the Security Council, he brusquely pushed his prepared speech aside, and made it clear he was about to speak sans notes or references. It was also evident that he could not use the speech after the revelations that had just been made.
Is there the remotest possibility that the Secretary of State of the United States had actually come before the Security Council without extensive documentation to make his case? Is it in any way plausible that Colin Powell would speak extemporaneously when making plea to embroil the nations of the world in a major war? Or, is it not far more reasonable to believe that everything that Colin Powell was about to say to the members of the SC had been totally discredited and nullified by the men who spoke before him?
And so, by lack of options, Colin Powell did not, once again repeat the allegations that supported the lies and distortions that had been repeated over and over by the President and others in his administration up to the time of and including the SOTU speech.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=1918