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To: greenspirit who wrote (71576)	2/5/2003 8:48:39 PM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 281500

Secretary Powell is a statesman who has a high level of integrity. We are in total agreement here. I especially appreciated his grownup-to-grownup style, this being the only speech in the past several years where I did not feel like I was sitting in one of those little plastic kindergarten chairs, being talked down to. I think he did a good job advancing the invasion argument, but at this point, I think GWB and his sidekicks have done so much damage to the cause, that Powell's excellent presentation will prove to be too little too late. His testimony on biological agents was the strong point of the speech, IMHO. (Of course, we knew Saddam had these all along, since we had the receipts (thanks, Russell Baker). I believe that Saddam is many years from making a nuke, if then. I was less swayed by Powell's trying to draw a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. I do not think Saddam controls the NE of Iraq to any significant degree and the terrorists in Baghdad portion was just plain weak. I'll say this, I do know after today whom from the GOP I could vote for in 2008, if only Powell would run. He is probably too good of a soldier to buck the CIC, though.