Reply #52: Oh, Nance, please be real

[Milo_Bloom]

"At that juncture, Powell had credibility with the public at large, regardless of any citizen's particular political affiliation, and such a pronouncement would have caused further questions to be asked, further scrutiny to be brought to bear."

We all know what would have happened if Powell had done that... he would have been SAVAGED by the administration and the media as someone who had "lost it".

A freaking weapons inspector himself came forward and said it was all BS and he got accused to being a child molester and no one in the media cared to listen to what he had to say.

If Powell had resigned and done what you asked, he would have dismissed as a crazy, treasonous coward who was more interested in protecting terrorists than getting the job done and nothing would have changed.

Understand, I don't forgive Powell, nor Edwards, nor Clinton, nor Kerry, nor anyone else who helped enable this war, but we also have to be real about what power they did or did not have. I wouldn't trust any of them to make important decisions, but I don't believe any of them had a magic bullet that could have stopped this war.