>My opinion is that Powell could have spoke the truth and his stature would have caused many, many people, and especially the media, to stop and take a second look at Bush's march to war and offer a much larger amount of scrutiny to Bush's reasons for war and possibly draw a different conclusion.
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Either that or Powell truly didn't know that the weapons of mass destruction search would come up empty. But I agree that he had a high enough position and enough credibility to have changed the debate.
