[Vision2020] 09-09-05 NY Times: Powell Calls His U.N. SpeechaLasting Blot on His Record

[Tom Hansen]

Ms Kraut –

 

The New York Times article was merely reporting on an interview conducted by
Barbara Walters.

 

Or does Barbara Walters have an ulterior motive . . . . other than to allow
Colin Powel to express what’s on his mind?

 

Please advise us, Ms. Kraut.  Inquiring minds want to know.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown
  

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Pat Kraut
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 11:11 AM
To: vision2020
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 09-09-05 NY Times: Powell Calls His U.N.
SpeechaLasting Blot on His Record

 

I no longer believe anything the NYT writes or has anything to do with. They
have an agenda and they print everything to the hate they have for half this
nation. It is not reporting the truth. It is the truth they want no matter
how much damage they do. 

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To: Vision 2020 <mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com>  

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Subject: [Vision2020] 09-09-05 NY Times: Powell Calls His U.N. Speech
aLasting Blot on His Record

 

NY Times:

 

September 9, 2005


Powell Calls His U.N. Speech a Lasting Blot on His Record


By
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q=19960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=STEVEN%20R.%20WEISMAN&inline=nyt-per>
STEVEN R. WEISMAN

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - The former secretary of state, Colin L. Powell, says
in a television interview to be broadcast Friday that his 2003 speech to the
United Nations, in which he gave a detailed description of Iraqi weapons
programs that turned out not to exist, was "painful" for him personally and
would be a permanent "blot" on his record.

"I'm the one who presented it on behalf of the
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/un
itedstates/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> United States to the world," Mr.
Powell told Barbara Walters of ABC News, adding that the presentation "will
always be a part of my record."

Asked by Ms. Walters how painful this was for him, Mr. Powell replied: "It
was painful. It's painful now." Asked further how he felt upon learning that
he had been misled about the accuracy of intelligence on which he relied,
Mr. Powell said, "Terrible." He added that it was "devastating" to learn
later that some intelligence agents knew the information he had was
unreliable but did not speak up.

Mr. Powell also implied in the interview that the United States did not go
to war in
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ir
aq/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> Iraq with sufficient troops to secure the
country and failed to keep sufficient Iraqi forces to help stabilize the
country. 

"What we didn't do in the immediate aftermath of the war was to impose our
will on the whole country with enough troops of our own, with enough troops
from coalition forces or by re-creating the Iraqi forces, armed forces, more
quickly than we are doing now," he said.

But with Iraq still violent and plagued by sectarian conflict, the United
States has "little choice but to keep investing in the Iraqi armed forces
and to do everything we can to increase their size and their capability and
their strength." 

Since leaving office in January, Mr. Powell has declined interview requests.
But his expressions of regret about the weapons intelligence and the lack of
troops were consistent with many of his statements in office, especially
after it became clear that Iraq had none of the weapons that Mr. Powell had
said it was stockpiling.

He acknowledged several times that intelligence failures lay behind his
presentation on the eve of the Iraq war two years ago, but he has never
expressed any regret about the war itself. Asked by Ms. Walters, "When the
president made the decision to go to war, you were for it?" Mr. Powell said,
"Yes."

Asked about editorials asserting that he had put loyalty "ahead of
leadership," Mr. Powell parried the question. "Well, loyalty is a trait that
I value, and yes, I am loyal," he replied. "And there are some who say,
'Well, you shouldn't have supported it, you should have resigned.' But I'm
glad that Saddam Hussein is gone."

Mr. Powell said he did not blame George J. Tenet, then the director of
central intelligence, for the failures and did not believe that Mr. Tenet
tried to mislead him.

"No, George Tenet did not sit there for five days with me, misleading me,"
he said, referring to the week he spent at the Central Intelligence Agency
reviewing the evidence on Iraq before making his presentation to the United
Nations. "There were some people in the intelligence community who knew at
that time that some of these sources were not good, and shouldn't be relied
upon, and they didn't speak up. That devastated me."

 


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