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Originally Posted by Chi-Town
Colin Powell backed off that assertion later.
Powell: No
Amazingly he was still promoting the WMD's story.
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Here are some quotes from the link that you posted:
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“I have not seen smoking gun, concrete evidence about the connection, but I do believe the connections existed,” he said.
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Powell himself made the case most strongly in February, when he urged the U.N. Security Council to back U.S. military action in Iraq. “Iraqi officials deny accusations of ties with al-Qaida,” Powell said then. “These denials are simply not credible.”
Powell defended those comments Thursday, even as he cast doubt on their conclusions. He said that at the time, he was referring specifically to the presence of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Baghdad for medical treatments.
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A terrorist organization existed in Iraq at the time under a different name. It was then thought to be an arm of al-Qaeda. When Sadaam was ousted this organization changed it's name to "al-Qaeda in Iraq."
Powell never denied the facts themselves. He only said that the evidence wasn't quite as concrete as he once thought.
This is hardly a denial:
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“I'm confident of what I presented last year,” Powell said. “The intelligence community is confident of the material they gave me. I was representing them. It was information they presented to the Congress. It was information they had presented publicly, and they stand behind it. And this game is still unfolding.
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