Reply #75: Even the English transcript raised questions . . .

[DrRang]

Right after Colin's UN dog and pony show, I got on the State Department's web site and read the English translations of the tapes Powell referenced. The difference in effect was remarkable. At the UN, Powell would read/play a segment and then "explain," saying stuff like "Okay, here we have the commanding officer telling the soldiers to get rid of all the chemical weapons."

But reading the raw transcripts, stripped of Powell's "explanations," regardless of the nationality of the accent, the voices just sounded like some NCO telling a grunt to get the place cleaned up because the brass were coming.