It’s A Bit Bloody Late Telling Us That Now.
Former Colin Powell aide and Vietnam vet Lt-Col Lawrence Wilkerson, declaiming from the corner of Wise-after-the-fact Road and I’m-retired-now-so-fuck-you Avenue:
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In an interview that aired on PBS on Friday, Feb. 3, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff claimed that the speech Powell made before the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003, laying out a case for war with Iraq, included falsehoods of which Powell had never been made aware. He said, “My participation in that presentation at the UN constitutes the lowest point in my professional life. I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community and the United Nations Security Council.”
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Wilkerson still sees this lapse as the result of a profound intelligence failure, saying, “I have to believe that. Otherwise I have to believe some rather nefarious things about some fairly highly placed people in the intelligence community and perhaps elsewhere.”
You can almost hear the gears of his cognitive dissonance whirring. C’mon Wilkerson, take that last step into the reality-based community. You can do it if you just try.
