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A Question for Colin Powell...?

Posted January 11th, 2006 by ringverse
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We learned yesterday that Colin Powell was present at the meeting where bush and Blair discussed bombing al-Jazeera. We also learned that he, along with Blair had to talk Bush out of the idea.

...the response of Colin Powell, who was finally asked about the meeting to his face outside St John's Episcopal Church in Maclean, Va. on Sunday morning.

The Daily Mirror's reporter, Ryan Parry, asked him a question that contained the date and subject of the meeting, and was successively told

"I can't remember every meeting,"
"I don't know, you'll have to forgive me,"
"I don't recall this,"
"I don't remember the Al Jazeera thing, frankly,"
along with several more brushoffs of the same "nondenial denial" sort.

Excuse me!?
Colin cannot seriously be expecting us to believe that he does not remember a conversation between his boss, George Dubya and Tony Blair about bombing the al-Jazeera station in Qatar, and having to talk his boss out of it?

Is the American press going to accept this pathetic excuse for a non-answer?

Well, Colin has had a chance to check his diary, so I guess it depends how much pressure they are under to keep asking...