i have to say, even though i didn't blog about it at the time (i wasn't blogging yet), i never believed any of the testimony. i thought it was made up. i kept thinking how easy Colin would get ripped by a defense lawyer, if it was actually a serious proceeding. i first got interested in law when watching the clinton proceedings, but i quickly learned that credible evidence seems...credible. there's a quality to it that is immediately apparent when it is presented and I just thought that everything Powell said would never have been allowed in a court of law - it'd be termed hearsay and speculation and myriad other objections.

Shoot - none of Powell's 'evidence' would have ever been allowed to be entered as evidence in the first place - the judge probably would've jailed Powell for contempt for even _trying_ to submit that hokus pokus nonsense.

was Iraq even allowed to present evidence? a defense attorney, if you will?

and if u want to see something really odd, take a gander at this page:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030205-1.html

looks like self-parody.