Nice try, Colin.

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So a few hours ago, like everyone else (well, you should have been watching, anyway - take a little interest in the world around you, won'tcha?) I was watching Colin Powell give his impassioned plea to the UN Security Council. Impressive as it was, sadly, it was nearly all circumstantial and based on informants rather than hard evidence - and truth to tell, from the really quick way China had a reply all planned, the members of the Security Council had pretty much made up their minds and their positions from the get-go, so Powell could have saved his breath as far as convincing that lot went. The outcome was obvious - the inspections would go forward and be given more time. The question is, now, will Bush & Co. go ahead without UN sanction?

A more immediate question though, I suppose, is how convincing Powell's presentation would be to the viewer. I mean, this is as much as the US is prepared to show its hand on, so I pretty much guess they've shot their bolt. If this was the case for the Prosecution, how would it fare?

To be continued when I get to the airport and go on-line from there. (Ooo! Suspense!)

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(caveat - I heard it live on the radio, instead of watching the pictures)

The most interesting thing he said, IMHO, was the shots of hurried evacs of sites two days before inspection. He implied they had lots of footage showing this in multiple sites. If so, that's the closest to a smoking gun I've seen so far in this whole thing, and certainly does prove intent to deceive (as well as serious leakage in the inspector group).