But wait!! Didn't he volunteer information without due diligence? Bogus information in an attempt to secure the Security Council's vote?

(Isn't this a bit like getting a Medicare Bill passed by spreading false information, only the Security Council didn't go for it? Isn't lying to get their way a habit of this administration?)

Isn't the only way Powell might salvage some credibility for his lack of due diligence to admit he was wrong, something the world already knew? Did he have a choice? Does he have any self-respect? (Hint - not much.)

And the Democrats forced him exactly how?

Those poor Republicans - "got their guts ripped out with a boathook" because they lied to get the US into a war with a Third-World country the size of California. And then had to admit they lied.

That is one of the most pathetic statements I have ever read. Victims to the end, those conservatives.

Would you rather admit you lied, or be dead, as are a lot of Americans and Iraqis.

Arf (and somehow they don't have the Halliburton insurance policy)