The intel investigation.- quote from Powell.
Posted here Monday, February 02, 2004 at 8:51:10 AM 
From Slate's summary of the day's news.
Meanwhile, Post columnist William Raspberry quotes from Secretary of State Powell's seemingly solid Iraq U.N. speech last February. "Every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions," Powell said. Raspberry ponders that and concludes it's about more than bad intel. He says he is "increasingly inclined to believe that the administration lied to us."
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from the Observer, "Senior American officials concluded at the beginning of last May that there were no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, The Observer has learnt. Intelligence sources, policy makers and weapons inspectors familiar with the details of the hunt for WMD told The Observer it was widely known that Iraq had no WMD within three weeks of Baghdad falling, despite the assertions of senior Bush administration figures and the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
Comment: the problem is, we clearly neer knew what the dministration was actually doing. Conclusions, such as to go to war, reached early, and the world acted as if there was some deliberation still going on.
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