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Article: Colin Powell's admission about WMDs and Iraq War widely overlooked.(Inside Track)(weapons of mass destruction)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- The New American
- Article date:
- November 10, 2008
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When former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced his support for Barack Obama during his October 19 Meet the Press appearance, his endorsement was widely publicized. Not widely reported was what he said on the same program about the cause-and-effect relationship between the U.S. government's false statements about Saddam Hussein's reputed weapons of mass destruction and the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Meet the Press interviewer Tom Brokaw asked Powell: "Removing the weapons of mass destruction from the equation, because we now know that they did not exist, was it then a war of necessity or just a war of choice?" Powell did not challenge Brokaw's premise that the ...