Can't find Iraqis taped in arms plot, Powell says

[Cocoa]

these are the the tapes he played at the U.N. I'd forgotten all about them, kudos to whoever finally asked Powell about this.




http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.powell27may27,0,5688129.story?coll=bal-news-nation

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"We can't find those guys. I don't know who those guys were. But the tapes were real tapes. We didn't make them up," Powell said in an interview with six newspapers, including The Sun.

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The tapes have rarely, if ever, been discussed publicly by administration officials since President Bush launched an invasion of Iraq last year with the chief aim of disarming the Iraq regime. No stockpiles of chemical, nuclear or biological weapons have been found despite more than a year of searching by American investigators led first by David Kay and more recently by Charles Duelfer.

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Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, whom U.S. officials portrayed as insufficiently aggressive in exposing Iraqi deception, later raised questions about the tapes in a book about the affair, writing that he didn't know where the United States had obtained the tapes.
"Since the occupation of Iraq, I have not seen any discussion of these tapes," Blix wrote.

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[sangh0]

1. Do you see how far we've fallen?

Under Clinton is was "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"

Under Bush* it's "I did not fabricate evidence", and "We do not torture prisoners"

[Cocoa]

4. yep, those awful Clinton years

remember all the idiots talking about how Clinton degraded our culture? Bill Bennett, etc.

Nice, short letter in today's Chicago Tribune: "Ah, for the good old days. Remember when all we had to worry about was the president's sex life?"

[iconoclastic cat]

15. Presidents who get their freak on regularly are not as aggressive

Have you noticed?
New PAC: Save Humanity--Blowjobs for Bushes!
Not me personally--I'm spoken for. And I'm a breeder.

[happyending]

2. incompetence at best

Fire the Bush Administration.

[Eric J in MN]

3. "I don't know who those guys were" - real responsible

"I don't know who those guys were" - real responsible.

Play a tape to try to prove the US needs to go to war, when you don't even know who is speaking on the tape.

Can we stop treating Powell as the respectable member of the Bush Administration and start calling him another crook?

[Cocoa]

6. but he didn't make them up!

those were real friends of Chalbi on those tapes.

[floda]

5. another Chalabi joke

Whats next?

[FormerOstrich]

7. They all should just

shut the fuck up.....Thier sorry excuses disgust me. I can't stand it.


I remember the tapes very well. I have wondered why no one ever mentioned them. I remember that the translation of one of the tape said they were "playing cat and mouse" with the U.S. I was intrigued by this, as I doubted most Iraqis would have known the expression, much less said it.

from the link:

He said once Iraqis start taking responsibility for their own future, "we can turn this around."

If it weren't for the current security problems, "People would have thrown awards at us" for toppling Hussein.

Is he writing a comedy script? Well, Powell, if it wasn't for unemployement, I would have paid my house payment.

edited out the italics so no one would mistake my comment for Powells

[Cocoa]

8. they do that repeatedly

Bush constantly talking about the trifecta that is causing all our economic woes.

[sangh0]

9. "Aside from all of our screwups, we're perfect"

Sort of like "If it weren't for all of the differences, the Dems and the Repukes would be the same"

[TacticalPeek]

12. And if bullfrogs had wings, they wouldn't bump they ass when they jump.

:silly:

[robbedvoter]

10. I was just thinking of that subversive dialogue: "move the trucks"

"I moved the trucks". "Did ys move the trucks?" "yeah, the trucks are moved"
Then Powell: "proof they had something to hide from the inspectors"

Those goldarned truckers - never trust them!

[enough]

11. 18 minutes of missing tape was long enough for Nixon.

This stinks to high heaven.

[gratuitous]

13. Colin Powell: House n-word

Awwww, poor Colin is all upset and "regrets" that not everything he said during his Prevaricating Powerpoint Presentation was accurate. On the bright side, not everything was inaccurate! I'm sure that's a great comfort to the surviving spouses and children, the grieving parents and friends.

Time for Powell to cut out from this administration, and grab his sinecure with some large corporation, methinks. Note to Rash Lardbutt: Here's a good opportunity to play the theme from "The Jeffersons".

[Whoa_Nelly]

14. Tapes real, not made up?

"...But the tapes were real tapes. We didn't make them up," Powell said...

By that statement I have to conclude that Powell knows about tapes that have been made up, and has inadvertently made an admission...wonder which tapes those would be?

:wtf:

[uhhuh]

17. What he meant was

that the tapes were real. It's just the stuff ON the tapes that was made up. See? It's not a lie. They have real tapes.:puke:

[cliss]

19. Isn't that the most bizarre statement?

I noticed that, too. Why would you start out by denying something that maybe nobody else would even think of?

Unless Bowel know something the rest of us don't.He's such a liar. He's lied for most of his career. That's got to feel like shit. He can't look people in the eye because he flushed his own integrity down the toilet a long time ago.

[steely]

16. I just had them on the shelf between the Exit plan and the WMD.

eom

[keithyboy]

18. Not to worry, we can always make more.

We probably have copies...don't we?

[Nihil]

20. Last seen ...

... heading into a large number of waste-baskets, a little piece of
tape into each ...

Or do people perhaps believe that this was an accidental loss? :eyes: