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<DIV><FONT size=4>Pat,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Pick a major news source that you believe. They are
probably carrying a similar story.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Google a bit to find other similar stories with the same
content.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] 09-09-05 NY
Times: Powell Calls His U.N. SpeechaLasting Blot on His Record</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] 09-09-05 NY
Times: Powell Calls His U.N. Speech aLasting Blot on His Record</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><EM>NY Times</EM>:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=timestamp>September 9, 2005</DIV><NYT_HEADLINE version="1.0"
type=" ">
<H1>Powell Calls His U.N. Speech a Lasting Blot on His
Record</H1></NYT_HEADLINE><NYT_BYLINE version="1.0" type=" ">
<DIV class=byline>By <A title="More Articles by Steven R. Weisman"
href="http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylL&v1=STEVEN R. WEISMAN&fdq=19960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=STEVEN R. WEISMAN&inline=nyt-per"><FONT
color=#000066>STEVEN R. WEISMAN</FONT></A></DIV></NYT_BYLINE><NYT_TEXT>
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<P>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.</P>
<P>"I'm the one who presented it on behalf of the <A
title="More news and information about United States."
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/unitedstates/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"><FONT
color=#000066>United States</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."</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>Mr. Powell also implied in the interview that the United States did not
go to war in <A title="More news and information about Iraq."
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iraq/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"><FONT
color=#000066>Iraq</FONT></A> with sufficient troops to secure the country
and failed to keep sufficient Iraqi forces to help stabilize the country.
</P>
<P>"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.</P>
<P>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." </P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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."</P>
<P>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."</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>"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."</P></DIV></NYT_TEXT><BR></DIV>
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