The Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, and officials in Baghdad, argued afterward that the briefing was full of fabrication. Certainly most people watching the briefing had no choice but to take Powell's word that everything is on the level—that the people talking are who he says they are, that something labeled a "chemical weapons bunker" is indeed that. However, many other countries, including those inclined to skepticism (Russia, China, France, Germany), have intelligence analysts who are perfectly capable of assessing the evidence. If they find any of it dubious, we will doubtless hear about it.