White House website SCRUBBED Powell's testimony!

[LynnTheDem]

15 May 2001, Powell testified before the Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Here's the WH website page;

http://www.state.gov/error_404.html

Again;

FEBRUARY 23 & 24, 2001 – COLIN POWELL SAYS IRAQ IS CONTAINED: "I think we ought to declare a success. We have kept him contained, kept him in his box." He added Saddam "is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors" and that "he threatens not the United States."
(Source: State Department, 2/23/01 and 2/24/01}

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=24889

American Progress gives the WH link;

http://www.state.gov/error_404.html

Here's the mirror;

http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/powell-cairo.htm

[kliljedahl]

Damn inconvenient facts

always getting in the way.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Yep

Last night on Bernie Ward's show he had a guy who wrote the book "Losing Iraq" or something like that. Look for the thread. But it was really good and he gave a lot of info. You can also download the archive at whiterosesociety.org Basically with Powell the guy said that he wrote up a 1,000 document of all types of information about outcomes and things like that. The Bush administration totally ignored everything he said and the guy who was on the show said everything that's happening in Iraq now was planned and they were building bases way before we went in.

[paineinthearse]

1. Down the old "memory hole"

Powell must not have testified!

Nothing to see here, move along, folks.

[Gunit_Sangh]

2. Your memory is in error

This never happened

[Straight Shooter]

4. Bwahahahaha!

Maybe the original transcript can be found in a garage sale ad in a Toles cartoon. :)

[LynnTheDem]

7. my memory is in error my memory is in error my memory is in error my memor

y is in error my mem...

HEY! CUT THAT OUT!

:P

[Clark2008]

22. Big Brother says we've always been at war with Iraq(n).

[Straight Shooter]

3. Maybe it was getting too many hits. Any way to find out?

You know Little Boots doesn't like anyone searching for information that might contradict the "official story."

Fascists.

[LaurenG]

5. Makes you wonder what these *%?&*^#$ are so afraid of and

How hard they are trying to hide their CRIMES!

[malmapus]

6. That has GOT to be cached!!!

Please tell me it is in all its glory :D

[LynnTheDem]

8. yeppers it is; click on the last link in my OP & there's the entire mirror

Thankfully several sites do automatic mirroring of the WH website.

[anarch]

10. "Oceania was at war with Eurasia:

therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."

...

"Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'. "

[cthrumatrix]

11. cover the lies .... they should ask Scotty what gives?

[Richard Steele]

12. Once again, the FACTS display an unacceptable 'Liberal Bias'.

[Synnical]

13. American Progress' Link is Bad - Page has moved

It's still on the State Dept website here:

http://www.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/2001/933.htm

Am. Prog. has this link:

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/933.htm

[Burried News]

14. Burried News

Nice example.

[NewJeffCT]

15. Condi Rice said something similar a few months later, I think

I don't recall her exact quotes, though.

And, right after 9/11, didn't even Emperor Palpatine himself, Dick Cheney, say that Saddam was in a box?

[Kelvin Mace]

16. Correction, link is NOT the WH site

It is the State Deptartment site. Important distinction, but a problem none the less.

[Jack Rabbit]

17. Another source documenting Powell's remarks

From Al Ahram Weekly (Cairo)
Dated March 1, 2001

Powell's priorities

President Hosni Mubarak found out about US-British air strikes against Iraq on 16 February, which killed two civilians and injured more than 20, from television reports. During US Secretary of State Colin Powell's stop in Cairo on Saturday, reports Nevine Khalil, American officials claimed that they had informed Cairo about their intended action. But the Egyptians stood their ground, and finally Powell told a joint news conference held on Saturday with Foreign Minister Amr Moussa that next time Washington will let its "friends" in the region know about such an action in advance . . . .

En route to the region, and again in Cairo, Powell said that the decade-old sanctions have "succeeded in keeping Iraq from rebuilding (its military machine) to the level that it was before. It's an army hat's only one-third its original size. I think we ought to declare this a success. We have kept him in his box."

Read more.

[Jack Rabbit]

19. Historical revisionism practiced by the White House

The kind of historical revisionism practiced by the White House compares to that in the old Soviet Union, particularly in Stalin's time.

Unfortunately, that isn't the only place where comparing the Bush regime to Stalin and other past totalitarian regimes is in order.

[Richard D]

18. Please contact the Ministry of Truth . . .

. . . immediately!

[Kelvin Mace]

20. And it doesn't appear to have been scrubbed

I found it here:

http://www.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/2001/931.htm

It seems to be a housekeeping move, not a Ministry of Truth move.

[LynnTheDem]

21. Thanks, Kelvin

Be nice if they bothered to redirect instead of just an error page but that's expecting too much I presume.