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...purported "evidence" used as props for Powell's assertions. The one that sticks most vividly in my mind was the satellite image of a semi truck parked next to an earthen mound. That's it. That's what it showed, and we had only Powell's assertion that it was a transporter for chemical weapons. It wasn't.

Ditto the radio intercepts, in which an Iraqi officer ambiguously orders his staff to ensure that there are no signs of WMD at their sites. Powell asserts they're hiding something, but at the time I remember thinking that it could also mean they wanted to be damn sure they hadn't overlooked anything in complying with UN sanctions. We know now that that's exactly the situation, but Powell's insistence on his interpretation illustrates the lengths the Bushies went to cherry-pick and spin the intelligence.

Powell's speech was a world-class snowjob. My once-high opinion of the guy plummeted like a neutronium brick in a blackhole gravitational field.

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