Powell's flip-flops on WMDs.(Worth Repeating)

Soon after becoming secretary of state, Colin Powell said that Iraq did not directly threaten the U.S. He later claimed Saddam's arsenals were bulging with WMDs that threatened the U.S. Now, after Dr. David Kay's recent disclosures, he has flip-flopped again, admitting that Iraq may not have had WMDs when we invaded that country.

"He [Saddam Hussein] threatens not the United States. He threatens this region. He threatens Arab people. He threatens the children of Egypt, the children of Saudi Arabia, the children of Kuwait with these weapons."

--Secretary of State Colin Powell remarks to the press in Cairo, Egypt, February 24, 2001

"My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we are giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence....

"Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent. That is enough agent to fill 16,000 battlefield rockets. Even the low end of 100 tons of agent would enable Saddam Hussein to cause mass casualties across more than 100 square miles of territory, an area nearly five times the size of Manhattan."

--Secretary of State Colin Powell presentation to the UN Security Council, February 5, 2003

Question: "David Kay, after his departure was announced, said he told Reuters that he concluded that there were no Iraqi stockpiles--told ...