Wednesday morning, decorated war hero and current Secretary of State Colin Powell – a man who has fought in or helped lead his military in a half dozen more wars than all the politicians he now works for, combined – went before the United Nations and global television viewers and delivered what the Bush Administration has withheld for half a year: the firm evidence that, it says, justifies war. Or not. Powell's lack of rhetorical grandstanding was welcome, as was the specificity of his charges. That being said, they still fail to justify launching a war. The first and most...