Powell's case for Iraq war falls apart (was never there)

A Pulitzer prize winning journalist at AP finally, after six months, fact-checked Powell's speech to the UN.

EL -- Nada, zip, misleading, slanted, subject to several interpretations and bogus. I should point out these were my words. The reporter just points out the repeated facts that aren't so. There weren't any accurate facts.

How did I know back then it was bogus? Someone in the UK checked it more thoroughly only a few days after Powell gave it and before it was known there were no WMDs. I have that in my archives - your opportunity to use my search tool in the left corner. I had also been checking the claims made repeated by the administration and in all cases foreign and US underground sources had the facts the US mainstream media refused to look for. We were being systematically lied to.

AP does catch the Powell lie - "Powell's rendition of the third conversation made it more incriminating, by saying an officer ordered that the area be "cleared out." The voice on the tape didn't say that, but only that the area be "inspected," according to the official U.S. translation."

AP is at least going back, if much too late, and now finally fact-checking.

The magazine for editors and publishers spreads the word to the people who failed and permitted the lies to drag America into war.

"Last month, Charles J. Hanley, special correspondent for the Associated Press and winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 2000, wrote a devastating 2,500-word critique of claims made by Secretary of State Colin Powell in his influential Feb. 5 speech to the United Nations on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. In a column published this week, E&P Editor Greg Mitchell calls this speech the single most important moment in the march to war -- and charges that the media's unquestioning endorsement of Powell's assertions made invasion inevitable."

EL - I couldn't say it better. The American media did not do its job and thousands of people are dead and billions of dollars are wasted.