Like Iraq's WMD, Powell's credibility much-rumored, never unearthed

It was exactly five years ago, on Feb. 5, 2003, that Colin Powell went to the UN to show his PowerPoint presentation and hold up his terrifying little vial of Bisquick or whatever it was, providing convincing and overwhelming evidence once and for all that absolutely nothing the Bush administration generally or Powell specifically ever said could ever be believed ever again.

In commemoration, a highly placed Iraqi engineer who risked everything trying to convince the U.S. that Saddam didn't have any WMD recalls how watching Powell on teevee made him realize that Official America didn't want to hear anything he had to say, and he was putting his life in mortal danger for nothing. So that's sad. (AFP via TPM)

But there is no denying the magnificent power of Powell's presentation, its total absence of factual foundation notwithstanding. Indeed, it turns out that Powell's Bisquick was that special magic kind that transcends the time-space continuum, as evidenced by Sen. Harry  Reid explaining just last year how Powell's UN performance justified Reid's vote to give Bush the blank check to go to war, even though that Senate vote happened in October 2002, which is to say nearly four months before Powell brandished his enchanted pancake mix.

Meantime, Matt Cooper, a "journalist" who was momentarily semi-famous in connection with the Scooter Libby subset of Bush administration lies, hoaxes and outrageous bloopers, thinks Powell would be the perfect VP choice for great-great-great-great-great-grampa John McCain. (Portfolio)

Makes sense. With Sig Rogich promoter Sig Rogich already on the bus, a "rank opportunist" like Powell would seem to fit right in on the Straight Talk Express.

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Obama/Powell might turn some heads but you won't see CP back with any repub.

To be fair, we know Powell had credibility once because he used it on his own people.

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Missed that Reid bit. Yowza.