Posted by BrianWebber at ts011d29.den-co.concentric.net on June 03, 2003 at 15:17:33:
laughed until I nearly wet myself!
John Becker once wrote:
>UNITED NATIONS - Secretary of State Colin Powell laid out America's case for military action against Iraq Wednesday, providing "irrefutable and undeniable" evidence that Saddam Hussein is hiding weapons of mass destruction
>Too bad, but them's the REAL facts.
And some of us said, "This is bullshit!"
Well, it turns out we were right....
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030531/wl_mideast_afp/
us_iraq_powell&cid=1514&ncid=1480
US Secretary of State Colin Powell was under persistent pressure from the Pentagon and White House to include questionable intelligence in his report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction he delivered at the United Nations last February, a US weekly reported.
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According to the report, the draft contained such questionable material that Powell lost his temper, throwing several pages in the air and declaring, "I'm not reading this. This is bullshit."