>Your reply offers little solace and does not touch my original point: how did this river boy from the true sticks, know these assholes were lying and believing bullshit, while those with the supposed best intelligence sold us all down the river?
Because there's a difference between the situation at the time and 20/20 hindsight. You think you KNEW, and you were proved right, but at the time . . . did you REALLY KNOW any better than anyone else?
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm giving Powell the benefit of the doubt based on his prior principled record. You are welcome to disagree as I suspect you do.
