Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Colin Powell Day: A Look Back In Horror

Greg Mitchell:

CNN’s Bill Schneider said that “no one” disputed Powell’s findings. Bob Woodward, asked by Larry King on CNN what happens if we go to war and don’t find any WMD, answered: “I think the chance of that happening is about zero. There’s just too much there.” George Will suggested that Powell’s speech would “change all minds open to evidence.”

The Washingotn Post's liberal columnist, Mary McGrory, wrote that Powell “persuaded me, and I was as tough as France to convince.” She even likened the Powell report to the day John Dean “unloaded” on Nixon in the Watergate hearings. Another liberal at that paper, Richard Cohen, declared that Powell’s testimony “had to prove to anyone that Iraq not only hasn’t accounted for its weapons of mass destruction but without a doubt still retains them. Only a fool—or possibly a Frenchman—could conclude otherwise.”


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What did dirty fucking hippie Atrios say? I called it "Powell's dud," referred to his "dissolving case," made fun of the vial of mass destruction,and desperately tried to bring attention to the UK's plagiarized "dodgy dossier" story.

No one listens to Atrios...