Ten Years After Colin Powell’s U.N. Speech, Old Hands Are Ready for More Blood

Ten Years After Colin Powell’s U.N. Speech, Old Hands Are Ready for More Blood

by andrea

Norman Solomon

When Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003, countless journalists in the United States extolled him for a masterful performance -- making the case that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. The fact that the speech later became notorious should not obscure how easily truth becomes irrelevant in the process of going to war.

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