But Mo Dowd also makes a stunning error in cosying up to Colin Powell, for some unfathomable reason

Colin Powell was a huge part of the perfidy and deliberate deceit on the war.

I dont know how she says the casus belli being trumped up irritated him, he was part and parcel of the bogus selling of the war.

He sat around glinty eyed and bs ed to Jim Lehrer, who is the most gelatinous and supine of news personalities, if personality can even be the term applicable, and told him the ballon weather trailers were weapons labs.

What else could they be.

Even after the fact, he did not show that he in any way regretted his looney presentation before the UN, representing the integrity of United States, or shall we say, ruining and misrepresenting what should have been the integrity of his country.

Not just that, but he and John McCain and a bunch of Repub Senators stood and posed around on the Hill the morning of the Senate vote insisting that it was to present a unified face to the UN and help create the momentum for Iraq to voluntarily comply.

That was not all.

His greatest perfidy was to take the fruits of the bugging of the UN meetings and then go the members and say, we dont want you to reach a consensus.

So that then, they could go to the people and say, the UN has failed us, we are gonna go to war and then go on to the looney Azores summit and bust in.