So says Colin Powell regarding the information he was provided on Saddam Hussein continuing to possess Weapons of Mass Destruction. So who’s to blame?
"George Tenet did not sit there for five days with me misleading me. He believed what he was giving to me was accurate. … The intelligence system did not work well," Powell said in an interview with ABC News.
Powell added: that he believed lower-level intelligence collectors and analysts failed him and the country. "There were some people in the intelligence community who knew at that time that some of these sources were not good, and shouldn't be relied upon, and they didn't speak up. That devastated me," he said.
And did Powell support the president's decision to invade Iraq? "I'm always a reluctant warrior… but when the president decided that it was not tolerable for this regime to remain in violation of all these U.N. resolutions, I'm right there with him with the use of force," he said.
The rest of this interesting interview is here.
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