[Doctor Raoul]

...I think he wants to but his wife is against it and I think she fears for his safety.

Going back to a long time a go and an election season, Powell had rented the Reserve Officers Association building for his announcement and she talked him out of it. For the reasons you stated.

[operation clinton cleanup]

General Powell lost credibility when he urged President George H.W. Bush to end the first Gulf War after the "highway of death"... Another day or two and Saddam would have been toast at the hands of his own Generals. (of course 41 did not have to take Powell's advice either).