Something Psychological is Wrong @ Colin Powell Help Primate-Bush Kill Saddam

Something Psychological is Wrong @ Colin Powell Help Primate-Bush Kill Saddam

PARADOX? YES!: "A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true."

Oct 18, 2021 — The enduring image from that moment is Powell holding up a tiny vial of white powder, which stood for what was supposed to be Saddam's anthrax.

 It is a harsh irony of Powell’s career that he cashed in so much of his credibility on America’s misbegotten return to Iraq.

It’s a terrible paradox in the life of Colin Powell, who died Monday, that the most important moment of his celebrated career came not when he led troops under fire in Vietnam, or when he orchestrated the successful expulsion of Iraqi invaders from Kuwait in 1991, or when he became the nation’s first African American national-security adviser and Secretary of State.

It came, instead, on the dais of the United Nations Security Council, in 2003, when Powell, who was then Secretary of State, made the case for the invasion of Iraq, based on the conclusion that Saddam Hussein possessed nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, and thus had to be removed by force. The enduring image from that moment is Powell holding up a tiny vial of white powder, which stood for what was supposed to be Saddam’s anthrax, and, mortgaging his esteemed reputation and all the credibility of the U.S. government, telling the world that the U.S. had no choice but to go to war. “My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources,’’ Powell told the Security Council. “What we are giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.”