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Marc Baptiste
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Posted: 19 October 2021 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Tim,

Got it.  Thank you (and others) for clearing that up for me!

Marc
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Peter Martin
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Posted: 19 October 2021 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

 Wilson wrote:
It was a doozy of a mistake for sure, but even if Powell
didn't give that presentation at the UN, Bush and Cheney
would have gotten someone else to do it. They were the
ones who really wanted to go into Iraq.

Yes, this is it. Unfortunately he did make the mistake and it shouldn't be ignored, but it is understandable how he ended up making it -- he relied on faulty intelligence. It was a bit of a rigged deck when those at the very highest levels of power had the ability to feed bad intelligence to him to get the backing they wanted.
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