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Extra bonus coverage here at the Trip. There is a story flying around the links that Colin Powell was caught in a lie about Iraqi WMD. It seems a documentary was shown on British ITV last night which exposed Powell as having said some very different things than what he told the UN. The transcript of the Feb 2001 press remarks is available at the State Department Website. This is the "money" quote:

We will always try to consult with our friends in the region so that they are not surprised and do everything we can to explain the purpose of our responses. We had a good discussion, the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq, and these are policies that we are going to keep in place, but we are always willing to review them to make sure that they are being carried out in a way that does not affect the Iraqi people but does affect the Iraqi regime's ambitions and the ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and we had a good conversation on this issue.

(emphasis added by lil' old me)

This doesn't look good. I'm not sure how he spins his way out of this one if it gets picked up by major media. But, like those 16 words in the State of the Union, I'm afraid it just won't stick. This Misadministration is taking R. Kelly's place as The Teflon Don.