Jon Stewart
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Cursing and gay sexing each other.
Powell was not the only one, to be fair.
Of course not.
Everybody came out.
Before, for instance, the linkage between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda in terms of the intelligence.
There wasn't much of a linkage at all.
Thank you.
We didn't hear that, though.
What we heard was there is a direct link.
You cannot talk about the war on terror.
You even came out and talked about how this fellow, you didn't mention his name, but al-Libi had described training that had been occurring from Iraq to al-Qaeda for... There had been training camps.
No question he was doing that.
No question he was on that list.
I think my...
My ultimate point is, and I guess I'm somewhat getting to it, is there was no real momentum for a war in Iraq.
We had to focus the country on that.
Afghanistan didn't take much convincing.
People, I think, were behind that.
That's fair.
So the White House and the Defense Department and the State Department had to coordinate a pretty extraordinary effort