Honestly, is there any reason we should care what Colin Powell thinks? About anything? Guess what ... he's against the escalation of troop levels in Iraq. Why gee, Herr General why do you care? You bear a huge amount of the burden for their being there in the first place, what with your willing complicity in the lies in the rush to let the draft-dodging chickehawks get their war on.
Now he's sorry, he's really sorry...
Powell's comments broke his long public silence on the issue and placed him at odds with the administration.
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...But it's history that will judge the performance of all of us in this troubling time ...
History will remember Powell as the faithful, but not too bright retainer who could have made a difference, but chose to remain quiet and be the penultimate team player.
For that he deserves to be excoriated when future generations look back on Mess O'Potamia. He was probably the one man in the US who could have stopped the invasion of Iraq if he's had the willpower and guts to be his own man... instead he played the good servant to the end, and is finally beginning to understand his mistake was being an enabler and not a fighter, if he ever was one.
