Speaking Of People Who Should Never Be Taken Seriously Again

Generally, there’s not much point in trying to tell whether a public figure is actually lying or just bullshitting. But in the case of Powell’s highly consequential, entirely wrong UN speech it’s pretty clear that he was lying.

And speaking of people who keep their sinecures forever despite not knowing anything about anything, let us revisit Mr. Richard Cohen:

The evidence he presented to the United Nations — some of it circumstantial, some of it absolutely bone-chilling in its detail — had to prove to anyone that Iraq not only hasn’t accounted for its weapons of mass destruction but without a doubt still retains them. Only a fool — or possibly a Frenchman — could conclude otherwise.

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