No, actually the British stole it. Powell merely used parts of the British report.
Yeah, but the point is that the intelligence is from 12 years ago. Of course they had weapons during the last time we went to war with them... because we had given them the weapons before that to fight the Iran contra war. But, we already disarmed them of the weapons we gave them the last time...
Man I'm sick of the government lying to me.
We didn't give them all their chemical weapons, actually we gave them very little for chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons, if we gave them anything to use for the sort. France and Russia are the countries that gave them the chemicals weapons they used in the Iran-Iraq war. We haven't disarmed them of anything, that is the point of these inspections and the threat of war, because we all knew Iraq to have these weapons, now they say they don't, but they offer no proof that they were destroyed.
See, when I read the link title, it read to me like this "Powell Iraq report fake; stolen from a 12 year olds essay" It would have seemed right to me that Dubya stole it from a 12 year old.
"pages 6 to 16 are copied directly from that document word for word, even the grammatical errors and typographical mistakes," Rangwala said."
Geez, they're not even trying anymore. Is it this easy to fool the world?
Why wasn't this news all over the front page of www.cnn.com? Is the media now completely entrenched in the government's pockets as well? How depressing... 
martsanz
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 would call my colleagues' attention to the fine paper that the United Kingdom
distributed yesterday which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi deception
activities.
-- Secretary of State Colin Powell to the United Nations Security Council, Feb. 5
that post-grad student said that he dosn't want this to lessen powell's excelent case laid out to the un the other day. he agrees with all that was said (it was his words the
uk cribbed after all). he only is disapointed with the academic impropriety made by a uk staffer preparing their dossier.
he also says he has spoken of the parties involved and that he dosn't believe
powell knew the info was lifted from him, only that it accuratly reflected
the reality we are faced with in iraq.
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