We know there were more lies than anyone could imagine. We know how Secretary Powell was treated and ignored. He had to make appointments with Bush and sit in waiting rooms with secretaries before he could get an audience with god himself.
There were people of conscience and those without. I thank you for being a man of conscience, Col. Wilkerson.
The report puts the worst of the USA behind us and we can go forward with integrity. I am sure there are many in the world angry and rightfully so, but, this closes a chapter and it is men like you that were unafraid of the truth and speaking it that matters. I have no words to express how valuable that is to me. It saves our democracy, sir.
Powell's team spent five days at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. in 2003, reviewing the evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. Then he went ahead with a crucial speech at the U.N. in New York, claiming that Iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. That assertion was false, and Wilkerson later rued his participation in preparing the speech as "probably the biggest mistake of my life."
No, sir. There was a far bigger mistake in not taking it to the people of this country that valued your words. Your biggest mistake would have been not trusting the American people with the truth.
