White House officials are so pleased with Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation at the United Nations Wednesday that they called off all public appearances, including the press secretary's daily briefing, saying that adding anything else would detract from the impact of Powell's remarks.
One White House official said Powell "hit it out of the park" and made a forceful, compelling case.
"Only the unconvincable could remain unconvinced," the official said.
Several lawmakers on Capitol Hill agreed.
"The import of Secretary Powell's message is compelling and chilling," House Majority Leader Tom Delay said in a statement Wednesday.
"For Saddam Hussein's
appeasers, no showing of diabolical crimes, documented militarism and pursuit of mass terror weapons will ever constitute sufficient, so-called 'evidence' to confront his tyrannical regime. For people of common sense, no such additional evidence is needed: Terrorists and terror states have to be eliminated."
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