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Colin Powell pressed on Pre-war lies [VIDEO]
Sam Husseini and his crew at Washington Stakeout use public Q&A sessions to ask public figures the questions they ought to be asked, but generally aren't.
It's called: journalism.
In the first video, Colin Powell responds to allegations from a Bob Woodward book that he fabricated parts of the testimony he gave to the UN, essentially selling the war to the American public and media.
In the second, Powell is pressed on whether he knew (as reported in the media) that one of the defectors whose testimony he relied on for the UN presentation had also said that there were no more WMD in Iraq. From an August 1995 debriefing of the UN: "I ordered destruction of all chemical weapons. All weapons - biological, chemical, missile, nuclear were destroyed."
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