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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ms Kraut –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The New York Times article was merely
reporting on an interview conducted by Barbara Walters.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Or does Barbara Walters have an ulterior
motive . . . . other than to allow Colin Powel to express what’s on his
mind?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Please advise us, Ms. Kraut. Inquiring
minds want to know.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:navy'>"If not us, who?<br>
If not now, when?"<br>
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- Unknown<br>
</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Pat Kraut<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 09, 2005
11:11 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> vision2020<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] 09-09-05
NY Times: Powell Calls His U.N. SpeechaLasting Blot on His Record</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com" title="deco@moscow.com">Art Deco</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" title="vision2020@moscow.com">Vision 2020</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Friday, September
09, 2005 9:23 AM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> [Vision2020]
09-09-05 NY Times: Powell Calls His U.N. Speech aLasting Blot on His Record<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:13.5pt'>NY Times</span></font></i></em><font size=4><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>September 9, 2005<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h1><b><font size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>Powell
Calls His U.N. Speech a Lasting Blot on His Record<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>By <a
href="http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylL&v1=STEVEN%20R.%20WEISMAN&fdq=19960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=STEVEN%20R.%20WEISMAN&inline=nyt-per"
title="More Articles by Steven R. Weisman"><font color="#000066"><span
style='color:#000066'>STEVEN R. WEISMAN</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"I'm
the one who presented it on behalf of the <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/unitedstates/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"
title="More news and information about United States."><font color="#000066"><span
style='color:#000066'>United States</span></font></a> to the world," Mr.
Powell told Barbara Walters of ABC News, adding that the presentation
"will always be a part of my record."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Mr.
Powell also implied in the interview that the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> did not go to war in <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iraq/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"
title="More news and information about Iraq."><font color="#000066"><span
style='color:#000066'>Iraq</span></font></a> with sufficient troops to secure
the country and failed to keep sufficient Iraqi forces to help stabilize the
country. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But with <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> still violent and plagued by sectarian
conflict, the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
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." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
had none of the weapons that Mr. Powell had said it was stockpiling.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>He
acknowledged several times that intelligence failures lay behind his
presentation on the eve of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
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."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"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."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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