Michael-

Do you support John Kerry for some concrete reasons, or are you just
anti-Bush?  Or are you anti-USA?  And are you retired?  You seem to have
alot of time on your hands to bash my country.

John Lee


At 03:06 PM 10/1/04 -0400, Michael Baier wrote:
>See, its not that hard.       Being stubborn isn't a sign of strength.
>
>Powell Regrets Iraq Weapons Claim for War
>By HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writer
>
>ATLANTA - Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday he regrets the Bush
>administration claimed that Iraq had stockpiles of weapons of mass
>destruction in its argument for war, but he believes the world is better
>off without Saddam Hussein.
>
>Following a speech to the Atlanta Press Club, Powell defended the bulk of
>his presentation to the United Nations in February 2003 in which he made
>the case for war in Iraq.
>
>"The only thing where we got it wrong and where our presentation did not
>hold up was the actual stockpiles," Powell said. "We've seen nothing to
>suggest that he had actual stockpiles. That was not right."
>
>He added, "As we've gone back and looked through the intelligence, there
>are indications that we had bad sourcing that we should have caught. For
>that I am disappointed and regret that that information was not correct."
>
>A Senate Intelligence Committee's report on prewar intelligence about Iraq
>found that much of the information provided or cleared by the CIA for
>inclusion in Powell's speech to the United Nations "was overstated,
>misleading or incorrect."
>
>Nevertheless, Powell noted that the war has led to the ouster of Saddam,
>and for that,he said, the world will be safer. He noted that Saddam had
>used weapons of mass destruction against his own people and Iraq's
>neighbors.
>
>"So, he had a history, the intention of doing it, he was hiding things, he
>was not responding to the demands of the international community," Powell
>said.
>
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