Anybody awake? Help me find Colin Powell's statement in 2000

[bobbyboucher]

or so, that said Iraq was not a threat

[Kenneth ken]

1. here

“We have been able to keep weapons from going into Iraq,” Powell said during a Feb 11, 2001 interview with “Face the Nation. “We have been able to keep the sanctions in place to the extent that items that might support weapons of mass destruction development have had some controls on them… it's been quite a success for ten years…”

link to Information Clearinghouse web site

[togiak]

2. Here you go

Here is a link to a site that has a whole bunch of quotes and source documents on how Bush ignored intel saying that Saddam had no WMD. It includes the Powell quote and the source docs.

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=24889

Here is also a link to the Carnegie Endowment's report on Iraq intel and how the Bush admin distorted the itel.
http://www.ceip.org/files/projects/npp/resources/iraqintell/home.htm

[Capn Sunshine]

3. Powell's pre 9-11 statement that UN Sanctions worked in Iraq:

Press Briefing Abroad Aircraft En Route to Cairo, Egypt
Secretary Colin L. Powell, En Route Cairo, Egypt, February 23, 2001

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/931.htm

Q: Iraq sanctions? Domestically but still have some impact because of the dual use challenges?

SECRETARY POWELL: I think it's important to point out that for the last 10 years, the policy that the United Nations, the United States has been following, has succeeded in keeping Iraq from rebuilding to the level that it was before. It's an army that's only one-third its original size. And even though they may be pursuing weapons of mass destruction of all kinds, it is not clear how successful they have been. So to some extent, I think we ought to declare this a success. We have kept him contained, kept him in his box.

[Cannabian]

4. For what it's worth

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/23/1064082978207.html

I've never been able to find a link to the video. Without it, the story just doesn't have legs.