Was it really 5 Years Ago When the Press Helped Colin Powell Sell the War "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 San Jose Mercury News asserted that Powell made his case “without resorting to exaggeration, a rhetorical tool he didn’t need.” The San Antonio Express-News called the speech “irrefutable,” adding, “only those ready to believe Iraq and assume that the United States would manufacture false evidence against Saddam would not be persuaded by Powell’s case.”
At the time Fred Clark said Powell's Evidence Looking Shaky, "No smoking gun, lots of smoke and mirrors." and Atrios called it Powell's Dud. Maybe there is something to this blogging stuff.
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