arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

2004

"US Secretary of State Colin Powell says he doesn't know if he would've recommended an invasion of Iraq if he'd known there were no stockpiles of banned weapons in the country."
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1037584.htm


2001

"On 24 February 2001, during a trip to Cairo, Egypt, Colin Powell told the media Saddam "has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."

Before "everything changed," Condi Rice admitted Saddam was no threat to the United States. "We are able to keep arms from him," she told CNN Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer on 29 July 2001. "His military forces have not been rebuilt."
http://progressivetrail.org/articles/040126Nimmo.shtml

"A television report by Pilger aired on British screens overnight said US Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice confirmed in early 2001 that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had been disarmed and was no threat."
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7350504%5E2,00.html