Greg Thielmann, a former Powell aide responsible for evaluating the threat of WMDs, is now claiming that at the time Powell spoke at the UN to build support for the war Iraq was not a threat to the United States or anyone else -- unless you believe that Saddam was paying the families of people that cinducted suicide attacks on Israelis.
In the interview Thielmann states that he believes that the Administrations approach to Intelligence matters was "faith-based” and that "They knew what they wanted the intelligence to show. They were really blind and deaf to any kind of countervailing information the intelligence community would produce. I would assign some blame to the intelligence community and most of the blame to the senior administration officials.”
In the same news story a UN weapons inspector said that "...Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. One time, he was sent to find decontamination vehicles that turned out to be fire trucks. Another time, a satellite spotted what they thought were trucks used for biological weapons."
All of this means that the Secretary of State is now a willing accomplice in the fraud that led to our current war in Iraq, and is another indication that the American people have been lied to at every turn.
Posted by Chris at October 16, 2003 11:38 AM