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Behind Colin Powell's Weapons of Mass Destruction Claim


Behind Colin Powell's Weapons of Mass Destruction Claim - YouTube

On February 5, 2003, United States Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the United Nations Security Council, laying the case for the US ...

20 years ago, the U.S. warned of Iraq's alleged 'weapons of mass ...

Powell repeatedly used one phrase during his hour-long speech: "weapons of mass destruction." He said those words a total of 17 times. It was ...

Colin Powell's presentation to the United Nations Security Council

On February 5, 2003, the Secretary of State of the United States Colin Powell gave a PowerPoint presentation to the United Nations Security Council.

Stories from the UN Archive: The presentation that launched a war

Twenty-one years ago in February, US Secretary of State Colin Powell held up a tiny blue-capped vial in the UN Security Council, claiming ...

Colin Powell's Fateful Moment | The New Yorker

The weapons of mass destruction turned out not to be there, but a hundred and sixty-five thousand American troops already were, and the ...

'Blot' on Powell's record: Lies to the UN about Iraq's weapons

On February 5, 2003, as the United States was preparing to invade Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell made a pivotal presentation to the ...

Colin Powell regretted helping launch Iraq War, boosting WMD claims

After months of gaining little traction on their insistence that Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, ...

Colin Powell's UN speech: a decisive moment in undermining US ...

Colin Powell will be most remembered for the act he most regretted, his 2003 presentation to the UN security council laying out US evidence of Iraqi weapons of ...

Colin Powell Addresses United Nations Security Council On Iraq

... weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. » Subscribe to NBC News ... Behind Colin Powell's Weapons of Mass Destruction Claim. UN Story•7.5 ...

'He lied': Iraqis still blame Powell for role in Iraq war - AP News

Al-Zaidi blames Powell for the US-led invasion of Iraq for his 2003 presentation at the UN that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction -- weapons that were ...

15 Years Ago, Colin Powell Lied to the United Nations - The Intercept

Such claims are not credible and are open to criticism, particularly by the UN inspectorates. Powell at the U.N.: POWELL: A dozen [WMD] experts ...

Iraq 'weapons of mass destruction': Remembering the lies of wars past

On Feb. 5, 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell made a presentation to the United Nations claiming Iraq possessed and was imminently planning to use “ ...

Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction - The National Security Archive

In his February 5, 2003, presentation to the U.N. Security Council, Secretary of State Colin Powell charged that Iraq had begun constructing mobile facilities ...

Colin Powell: U.N. Speech "Was a Great Intelligence Failure" - PBS

The speech set out to detail Iraq's weapons program, but as the intelligence would later confirm, that program was nonexistent. More than 13 ...

Colin Powell's legacy, defined by two very different wars in Iraq - NPR

He forcefully argued that same Iraqi leader possessed chemical, biological and perhaps nuclear weapons that made him a serious threat, and the ...

Remarks to the United Nations Security Council - state.gov

Iraq did not meet its obligations under 1441 to provide a comprehensive list of scientists associated with its weapons of mass destruction ...

Colin Powell Was a Nice Man Who Helped Destroy Iraq - The Intercept

As secretary of state in 2003, Powell told the United Nations that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. That was false.

Iraq Statements by Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell

"We are resting our case for the necessity perhaps of going to war on the fact that Saddam Hussein has developed weapons of mass destruction, has them in his ...

Revisiting Colin Powell's UN address that led to war in Iraq

Twenty years ago, Colin Powell caught the world's attention during an emergency session of the UN Security Council.

Colin Powell was a war criminal, most dangerous weapon of mass ...

Powell claimed that “in the middle of January, [WMD] experts at one facility that was related to weapons of mass destruction” were “ordered to ...