Regarding Colin Powell’s speech to the UN back in those halcyon days of WMD searching Andrew Sullivan has this to say today:
My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we are giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence. I will cite some examples, and these are from human sources.
It was almost all crap, as we now know. Any self-respecting public official would have resigned as soon as that became clear - or at least apologized, as Blair has done. But Powell was in the Bush administration.
Erm, why Andrew? Are you asserting that Colin Powell knew the intelligence of the United States, France, Germany, The Czech Republic, Britain, Russia and others was flawed? That would be the biggest pile of conspiracy-theorist crap I’ve ever encountered - a stretch of almost Mooreian proportions.
I’m not going to say that anyone should be an apologist for the Bush administration’s many flaws but Sullivan is sounding more and more like Daily KOS each day. What Colin Powell said was absolutely true to the best determinations of intelligence agencies around the world, is he going to buy a “Powell Lied!” T-Shirt now or what?
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at November 16, 2004 11:49 AM | TrackBack