Thursday, July 15, 2004

More Proof They Knew



This morning's Los Angeles Times uncovers an explosive document
(http://images.latimes.com/media/acrobat/2004-07/13418408.pdf) buried at the end of the recent Senate Intelligence report. It shows that before Colin Powell's now-discredited U.N. speech justifying war in Iraq, State Department analysts told Powell and top administration officials about "dozens of factual problems" (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-powell15jul15,1,7897981.story?coll=la-home-headlines)
in the address (which was written by Vice President Cheney's staff (http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/unmovic/2003/0609conseq.htm).