A hoax on the American people

Powell’s Former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson Calls Pre-War Intelligence a ‘Hoax on the American People’

Colin Powell’s former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson makes the startling claim that much of Powell’s landmark speech to the United Nations laying out the Bush Administration’s case for the Iraq war was false.

“I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community, and the United Nations Security Council,” says Wilkerson, who helped prepare the address.

“I recall vividly the Secretary of State walking into my office,” Wilkerson tells NOW. “He said: ‘I wonder what will happen if we put half a million troops on the ground in Iraq and comb the country from one end to the other and don’t find a single weapon of mass destruction?’” In fact, no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.

An interview with Lawrence Wilkerson
 

DAVID BRANCACCIO: Mr. Wilkerson, thanks for doing this.

LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Thank you for having me…

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