Powell Admits False WMD Claim
'Blot' on Powell's record: Lies to the UN about Iraq's weapons
Powell used his reputation for credibility to help convince the world Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat, but the US intel was false.
Colin Powell regretted helping launch Iraq War, boosting WMD claims
Colin Powell knew his name would be forever tied to the ill-fated US 2003 invasion of Iraq, and that the lending of his reputation and personal prestige to the ...
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 ...
Powell Admits False WMD Claim - The Nation
–that he and the Bush administration misled the nation about the WMD threat posed by Iraq before the war. Specifically, he said that he was ...
15 Years Ago, Colin Powell Lied to the United Nations - The Intercept
POWELL: Iraq's record on chemical weapons is replete with lies. It took years for Iraq to finally admit that it had produced 4 tons of the ...
'He lied': Iraqis still blame Powell for role in Iraq war - AP News
In 2011, Powell told Al Jazeera he regretted providing misleading intelligence that led the U.S. invasion, calling it a “ blot on my record.” He ...
Colin Powell's UN speech: a decisive moment in undermining US ...
To drive home the point, Powell played a recording of an intercepted conversation between Iraq army officers about a UN weapons inspection and ...
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 ...
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 Fateful Moment | The New Yorker
It came, instead, on the dais of the United Nations Security Council, in 2003, when Powell, who was then Secretary of State, made the case for ...
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 “ ...
Iraqi defector admits lying about WMD claims - Yahoo News
... Powell's claims that [ ... Of course, Powell's weapons evidence has been proven bogus in the years since the invasion.
The Iraq Invasion 20 Years Later: It Was Indeed a Big Lie That ...
They greased the way to this tragic conflagration with the false claims that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed an arsenal of weapons ...
Just how bad were Colin Powell's lies to U.N. about Iraq?
At the United Nations Security Council meeting on Feb. 5, 2003, Powell stated there was evidence that then-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was in ...
Colin Powell demands answers over Curveball's WMD lies
Colin Powell, the US secretary of state at the time of the Iraq invasion, has called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain why they failed to alert ...
Powell Says C.I.A. Was Misled About Weapons - The New York Times
Secretary of State Colin L Powell says for first time that he now believes Central Intelligence Agency was deliberately misled about ...
The Iraq War and WMDs: An intelligence failure or White House spin?
Sixteen years after the Iraq War started, the White House press spokesman at the time sought to rebut a claim he called a “liberal myth” — that ...
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 ...
Briefing Security Council, US Secretary of State Powell presents ...
A detained senior Al Qaeda terrorist had described Iraq as offering chemical or biological weapons training for two Al Qaeda associates, beginning in December ...
Why did Gen. Colin Powell lie about the intelligence which caused ...
General Powell was the only government official who refused to accept there were any “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq. Although he received ...