23 Years Ago: Colin Powell Lied to Launch a Bogus War

Today: Anniversary Of The Infamous Colin Powell UN Speech On Iraq WMDs

On this day: Powell made his lie-filled speech to the UN about WMDs being in Iraq to try to get the rest of the world to support a US invasion. However, the world did not support Bush's drooling desire to strike Saddam. What's shocking is that Powell was never on board with attacking Iraq and the intelligence he used by the State department had already been flagged as weak and highly questionable before the speech. Months later years Powell admi…

23 years ago: Colin Powell lied to launch a bogus war

On Feb. 5, 2003, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell’s address to the United Nations Security Council was built around the unfounded claim that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was concealing ...