Need Source: Debunking Powell's UN presentation

[HFishbine]

I've seen some excellent sources posted here before that put the lie to Powell's UN presentation on Iraqi WMD, point by point. Does anybody have a link? Thanks in advance.

[LunaC]

1. These might help.....

Colin Powell embarrassingly tried to convince the U.N. Security Council of Saddam's deception by citing a UK dossier that was based on a ten-year-old plaguerized doctoral thesis.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,890898,00.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html
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Colin Powell (Secretary of State): "This despotic regime .....gassed its own people.....".

"Both Iran and Iraq used chemical weapons against each other during their war. At the termination of the Iran-Iraq war, professors Stephen
Pelletiere and Leif Rosenberger, and Lt Colonel Douglas Johnson of the US Army War College (USAWC) undertook a study of the use of
chemical weapons by Iran and Iraq in order to better understand battlefield chemical warfare. They concluded that it was Iran and not Iraq
that killed the Kurds."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=22569589
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The following quotes are attributed to Bush* but I'm confident that Powell used them at the UN too.......

George W. Bush (October 2002) "The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html

Mohammed ElBaradei (International Atomic Energy Agency Director): "We have to date found no evidence that Iraq has revived its nuclear
weapon program since the elimination of the program in the 1990s.”

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/iraq_01-27-03.html


George W. Bush (October 2002): “Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the
past.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html

Mohammed ElBaradei (International Atomic Energy Agency Director): “First, we have been inspected all of those buildings and facilities that
were identified through satellite imagery as having been modified or constructed over the past four years. The IAEA inspectors have been
able to gain ready access and to clarify the nature of the activities currently being conducted in these facilities. No prohibited nuclear
activities have been identified during these inspections.”

http://www.usembassy.it/file2003_01/alia/a3012703.htm


George W. Bush (October 2002): “Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges,
which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html

Mohammed ElBaradei (International Atomic Energy Agency Director): “A particular issue of focus has been the attempted procurement by
Iraq of high-strength aluminum tubes, and the question of whether these tubes, if acquired, could be used for the manufacture of nuclear
centrifuge. Iraqi authorities have indicated that their unsuccessful attempts to procure the aluminum tubes related to a program to
reverse-engineer conventional rockets. To verify this information, the IAEA inspectors have inspected the relevant rocket production
and storage sites, taken tube samples, interviewed relevant Iraqi personnel, and reviewed procurement contracts and related documents.
From our analysis to date, it appears that the aluminum tubes would be consistent with the purposes stated by Iraq and, unless modified,
would not be suitable for manufacturing centrifuges.”

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/iraq/elbaradei_report.html

[IndianaGreen]

2. There is a lot of material in the DU archives as well

The Guardian and The Independent carried several stories that debunked the Niger claims, and other lies that Powell told the UN, including the graduate student paper that Blair used as a primary source in the Brits White Paper.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

3. There are some articles...

linked at the bottom of the Foreign Policy page on my site:

www.doyouknow.org