[kattracks]

Strategery!

[EternalVigilance]

Ah, the power of a resolute President!

Especially one who was right from the start.

[Rain-maker]

Funny how all these peacenik socialists don't have a shred proof that Saddamn doesn't have WMD's.

Funny how these lefty pasifists say Saddman has no WMD's, but are afraid out troops will get attacked with nerve gas and biological agents.

[fightinJAG]

Why do they keep bleating the outright lie that there exists "a high degree of skepticism about a new war"? Even Rat polls show a majority of Americans understand the need to take out Saddam Hussein.

[Greybird]

It is way past time for some real intelligence meat to be spread in front of the world -- and apparently Powell has to brutally fight his own colleagues to get it declassified.

If the Secretary of State is not authorized automatically to do this, and to use his judgment about presenting public evidence, something is wrong. I'd take that as a vote of no confidence, if I were Powell, that his boss doesn't come forward to part the secrecy waters.

And if Powell didn't want to come back post-bellum for a second Bush term, I wouldn't blame him. This is shabby treatment. The president has the power to stop it, and he hasn't chosen to do so.

[Samwise]

First, I'm getting a little tired of the "no smoking gun" phrase. We had twin smoking towers for goodness sakes. We were attacked. Bush vowed to get those murderers and those who support them. The people who scream about "no smoking fun" are the same ones who blamed Bush for allowing 9/11 to happen. Arggggggh!

Second, I can't imagine Colin Powell being "used" by anyone. Bush is smart and he surrounds himself with people of excellence. Powell is one of them.

Now a question...A few days a friend went off on a rant about Bush's war talk destroying her 401K. I chose not to engage her--we really are old friends, but I would have more luck discussing politics and economics with the teakettle. Anyway, when I suggested she listen to Powell's speech, she said that Powell was so disgusted with the way Bush was treating him that he had already announced that he would not sign on for a second Bush term. Is there any truth to this? Has Powell announced that this is his only term?

[hobbes1]

But now, Powell's views are virtually indistinguishable from Rumsfeld's (or Bush's). Hence the question: Were the past months of internal discord, so feverishly covered by the media, real or confected? Was the Rumsfeld-Powell split a contrived good-cop, bad-cop routine designed from the start to build the credibility Powell now enjoys?

I love this. The media still doesn't catch on to the No-Duh school of Politics.

[Semper Paratus]

Powell Bush and the Rumster all knew the earliest D-Day was 02/XX/03.

Bush used the time to give the UN a chance to redeem itself as he said in his UN speech. The only difference was that Powell thought the UN could come through, and Bush/Rumsfeld doubted it.

Today Powell joins the hawks.