"I participated in a hoax on the American people,
the international community and the United Nations Security Council."
the international community and the United Nations Security Council."
- Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
THE MOTHER OF ALL HOAXES MER - MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 5 February 2006: Last Friday evening Colin Powell's Chief of Staff in the State Department at the time Powell gave his historic speech at the U.N. Security Council came clean. It was that much-heralded speech of course that prepared the way for the launching of the disastrous Iraqi invasion/occupation. Now, Friday evening on the NOW! program on Public Broadcasting, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who was right there helping prepare Powell's every move, damns it all as a 'historic hoax'.
But why did it take all these wrenching and bloodsoaked years?
And who can hold these men accountable for what they have done. Powell himself is being wined and dined and awarded from one event to another. CIA Director George Tenet may have been forced out at the Agency later on but he was given the much-coveted 'Medal of Freedom' in a special White House ceremony and he is raking in the bucks on top of teaching at prestigious Georgetown University. The other man in the photo, John Negroponte, is now in charge of the entire U.S. government's 'intelligence community'. And as a result of what these top Bush/Cheney Administration officials did oh so many are dead and maimed while a vaste American treasure now approaching a half trillion dollars has been squandered with American credibility at the lowest point ever, the American military stretched to the 'battle-hardened' breaking point, and more military imperial strikes yet planned as 'defense' spending escalates even beyond Cold War days.
While the 'mainstream' corporate media, which in many ways now includes PBS on which Colonel Wilkerson spoke, are just beginning to at times focus on the disaster these men are responsible for the following was published by MER two years ago today. That was the first aniversary of the Powell speech that now goes down in history as one of the greatest and most consequential hoaxes of 'modern' time. >>>
But why did it take all these wrenching and bloodsoaked years?
And who can hold these men accountable for what they have done. Powell himself is being wined and dined and awarded from one event to another. CIA Director George Tenet may have been forced out at the Agency later on but he was given the much-coveted 'Medal of Freedom' in a special White House ceremony and he is raking in the bucks on top of teaching at prestigious Georgetown University. The other man in the photo, John Negroponte, is now in charge of the entire U.S. government's 'intelligence community'. And as a result of what these top Bush/Cheney Administration officials did oh so many are dead and maimed while a vaste American treasure now approaching a half trillion dollars has been squandered with American credibility at the lowest point ever, the American military stretched to the 'battle-hardened' breaking point, and more military imperial strikes yet planned as 'defense' spending escalates even beyond Cold War days.While the 'mainstream' corporate media, which in many ways now includes PBS on which Colonel Wilkerson spoke, are just beginning to at times focus on the disaster these men are responsible for the following was published by MER two years ago today. That was the first aniversary of the Powell speech that now goes down in history as one of the greatest and most consequential hoaxes of 'modern' time. >>>
