The reviews are in.
EVEN DEMS SAY IT WAS ‘COMPELLING'
SUDDENLY, everyone stopped demanding, "Where's the smoking gun?" - because Secretary of State Colin Powell came armed with plenty of ammunition as he made the case against Saddam Hussein.
"It was a 21-gun salute for anyone who was willing to listen," said military analyst Dan Goure.
Democratic critics began falling in line behind President Bush and the magic word was "compelling."
Powell had promised he'd make a "compelling" case and even Bush's toughest critics agreed he'd done it.
"Compelling," said everyone from previously skeptical Democratic presidential contender Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), not to mention Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), who didn't need further convincing.
Even an antiwar 2004 Democratic candidate, ex-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, said Powell made a "compelling" case, though not enough for "going to war unilaterally."
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) - who voted "no" to an Iraq attack last fall and just last week sought a new vote to block military action - switched his tone and said Powell made "a very convincing case" and left Saddam with "only one final chance" to disarm.
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Powell! Right in the kisser
Secretary of State Powell addressed the United Nations Security Council yesterday, but his real audience was the American public. In a brilliant presentation as riveting and as convincing as Adlai Stevenson's 1962 unmasking of Soviet missiles in Cuba, Powell proved beyond any doubt that Iraq still possesses and continues to develop illegal weapons of mass destruction.
The case for war has been made. And it's irrefutable.
The American people saw the truth. Will the world see it too, or will it prefer to remain blind to the deadly threat? How long can the intolerable be tolerated?
