I assumed you watch Shields and Brooks on PBS tonight. The transcript is not yet available. My recollection of the talk on Iraq and Powell is as follows.
Brooks: We have now moved to the next stage with Powell's presentation. The question is no longer if we are going in, but how and with what goal. If people want to go round and round they may do so, but, unless Saddam turns Methodist, we are now down to the end game of "how do we go in, do we want just to disarm, or do we want to establish a Democracy, and if so, how?"
Shields: I don't know if Bush is a genius, just lucky, or both. He has in Powell a Sec of State that is like a tenured Professor at a Ivy League University. He is bullet proof. When people were asked in a recent survey, "Who do you trust on Iraq, Bush or Powell?", the answer was Powell, 64% to 24%. He made a great presentation, with Tenet behind him as a witness, at the UN. I can understand why my friend, Mary McGrory, (Liberal Columnist at the Washington Post) said she was convinced. |
