{"id":4711,"date":"2008-02-05T11:27:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2017-05-21T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T20:33:59","slug":"lie-after-lie-what-colin-powell-knew-five-years-ago-and-what-he-told-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/lie-after-lie-what-colin-powell-knew-five-years-ago-and-what-he-told-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew Five Years Ago, and What He Told the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/heilbush.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/heilbush.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>afterdowningstreet.com<\/p>\n<p>Colin Powell made his Iraq presentation at the UN five years ago, on February 5, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>As much criticism as Powell has received for it&#8221;\u201dhe <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/Politics\/story?id=1105979\"><strong><font color=\"#3399cc\">calls it<\/font><\/strong><\/a> &#8220;painful&#8221; and something that will &#8220;always be a part of my record&#8221;&#8221;\u201dit hasn&#8217;t been close to what&#8217;s justified. Powell was far more than just embarrassingly mistaken; the evidence is conclusive that he fabricated evidence and ignored repeated warnings that what he was saying was false.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Congress has never investigated Powell&#8217;s use of the intelligence he was given. Even so, what&#8217;s already in the public record is extremely damning. So while the corporate media has never taken a close look at this record, we can go through Powell&#8217;s presentation line by line to demonstrate the chasm between what he knew, and what he told the world. As you&#8217;ll see, there&#8217;s quite a lot to say about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterdowningstreet.org\/?q=node\/30749\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>afterdowningstreet.com Colin Powell made his Iraq presentation at the UN five years ago, on February 5, 2003. As much criticism as Powell has received for it&#8221;\u201dhe calls it &#8220;painful&#8221; and something that will &#8220;always be a part of my record&#8221;&#8221;\u201dit hasn&#8217;t been close to what&#8217;s justified. 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