So you're saying he should have attacked the ground under the walls? Wouldn't that have just destroyed all the ice just the same as Akainu's attack did?
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
Wasn't that point after the ice was already melted anyway?
And yeah, after watching the Yibis version, it's much clearer that Aiokiji wasn't saying no to Whitebeard using Haki.