Monday, February 06, 2006

Iraq Pre-War Intelligence Hoax on PBS NOW

Read the full transcript of the show
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcriptNOW205_full.html

hummm.. I just watched this show (124MB 25min)... things are not what they seem...

More on This Story:
Iraq Pre-War Intelligence
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/iraqdocuments.html

Focus on Iraq
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/iraq.html

Lawrence Wilkerson
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/wilkerson.html




Colin Powell's Former Chief Of Staff Wilkerson Calls Pre-War Intelligence A 'Hoax On The American People'

NOW/PBS
2-6-6

Powell's Former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson Calls Pre-War Intelligence a 'Hoax on the American People' Tonight on PBS Program 'NOW' Friday February 3, 12:19 pm ET

NEW YORK, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- In an interview airing tonight on the PBS weekly newsmagazine NOW, Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson makes the startling claim that much of Powell's landmark speech to the United Nations laying out the Bush Administration's case for the Iraq war was false.

"I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community, and the United Nations Security Council," says Wilkerson, who helped prepare the address.

The NOW report, which airs days before the third anniversary of Powell's speech, examines the serious doubts that existed about the key evidence being used by the American government at the very time Powell's speech was being planned and delivered.

"I recall vividly the Secretary of State walking into my office," Wilkerson tells NOW. "He said: 'I wonder what will happen if we put half a million troops on the ground in Iraq and comb the country from one end to the other and don't find a single weapon of mass destruction?'" In fact, no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.

NOW, hosted by David Brancaccio, airs Friday nights at
8:30 on PBS (check local listings).

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