Colin Powell now says he never thought Iraq had nuclear capabilities. WTF?

On Monday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told me that he and his department’s top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the president followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making the claim. Now he tells us.

“The CIA was pushing the aluminum tube argument heavily and Cheney went with that instead of what our guys wrote,” Powell said. And the Niger reference in Bush’s State of the Union speech? “That was a big mistake,” he said. “It should never have been in the speech. I didn’t need Wilson to tell me that there wasn’t a Niger connection. He didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. I never believed it.”

When I pressed further as to why the president played up the Iraq nuclear threat, Powell said it wasn’t the president: “That was all Cheney.” A convenient response for a Bush family loyalist, perhaps, but it begs the question of how the president came to be a captive of his vice president’s fantasies.

Colin Powell is a son of a bitch! If he had doubts about this presidents reasons for going to war, and thought that the information being given to the Congress and the American people was false, he had a duty to stop them! At the very least he should have resigned and gone public!

There is no out for Powell. He appeared to be an active participant in this subterfuge. It was his so-called evidence presented to the United Nations that convinced many people that we had the goods on Saddam. He is just as guilty as Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, and Bush! They should all burn in hell for what they have done to this country, not to mention Iraq!