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February 05, 2009

Powell Day of Shame

This calendar entry was covered extensively last year

Powell's bioweapons trailer graphic
The bloodthirsty amongst our fellow Americans hung their helmets on Secretary of State Colin Powell's phony graphics, February 5, 2003.

I concluded the five-year anniversary post last year, "Nothing described in Powell's presentation ever was found."

Added note: Vastleft again commemorates this sad and awful display of war propaganda (please see HERE and HERE) by showing how the filters at pbs a few months ago wouldn't let News Hour correspondent Gwen Ifill touch the notion that, "The media all-but-unanimously pronounced Colin Powell's fact-challenged Feb. 2003 UN presentation 'compelling.'"

Link update: The official State Department archive for the February 5, 2003 Powell presentation is HERE.

Posted by The Owl at 16:33. Filed under: Calendar

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I remember at the time the CIA on its website had a photo of one of these "labs" that had been "found" in the desert, and my first reaction was, "Why isn't there any sand on these trailers?"

My sister and bro in-law had recently bought a car at a police auction in Calif; the car had been abandoned in the desert. They had to remove three or four inches of sand off the floor, and rebuild the motor.

And yet - here the CIA had these pictures of pristine labs. Yes, later they were "determined" to be weather balloon filling stations manufactured in the UK.

Posted by Gerald Weinand on February 10, 2009 at 19:36

Yes. Following the link to the post-Powell review I did last year, there is this item with a link farther back to the old blog:

*May 7, 2003 and May 29, 2003*
Post-invasion, the mobile bioweapons labs supposedly are found, and President Bush says so to Polish television on May 29. Later, it would be revealed in a Washington Post story (http://deepblade.net/journa...) that the Pentagon knew at the time that these were no such thing.

Posted by The Owl on February 10, 2009 at 20:28
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