Colin Powell said yesterday he has seen "no smoking gun.. concrete..evidence" of ties between Saddam Hussein and alQaeda.
As for WMD, Powell said Iraq had them in the 80s and had refused for a decade to assure th world it had disposed of them.
(Yesterday, you may have noted the US withdrew most of the team searching for WMD. This after having found none.)
So the two reasons the Administration offered for its attack on Iraq - ties to the 9/11 terror and WMD - lack proof.
Of course, the third reason the White House gives - freeing Iraq of Hussein's tyranny - suggests there are a lot more premptive wars ahead, as we pursue our God-given task in the world.
Ever loyal, and in defiance of logic, Powell maintained yesterday that Iraq needed to be disarmed by force.
Secretary Powell is an intelligent guy. I presume he has conducted an internal debate and concluded that he is serving the nation as a force for reason in an Administration populated by Hobbesians, true believers and ideologues.
Poor Colin Powell.
PS I know where the WMD are. They're in the Gulf of Tonkin.