A career as a statesman flushed down the toilet. Why can't people just shut up?
Everyone knew he was just giving a wink and a nod to the President.
Further, in a very short time, Dr. Rice has proven herself more of a credit to this country than Powell did in his four years.
The article really doesn't support the headline.
Gee, we didn't see this coming, Mr. Powell. You never fooled me.
FORMER US secretary of state Colin Powell claims he is "furious and angry" about being misinformed over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and has criticised George W.Bush and Donald Rumsfeld for their clumsy rhetoric in the lead-up to the war.
Notice how the reporter juxtaposes Powell's separate and unrelated statements - about his being angry at the intelligence servies for being misinformed about the WMDs and his criticism of Bush and Rumsfeld for the language they used to describe "old Europe" - so as to create the impression that Powell was angry at Bush and Rumsfeld for misleading him about the WMDs.
It's not an accident - the paper is very clearly trying to create a false impression.
And this interview helps the situation, and your country, how, Mr. Powell?
I'd say if anything was overstated, it's this headline
Just another reminder of how good it is to have Condi at State rather than the weak Powell.
Colon Bowell = idiot.
What a mistake to place a political general in the position as Secretary of State.
He is almost as much a disaster as the Klintons' Albright.
So...if this is how "changes begin" was Bush wrong in overstating?
A formerly oppressed people are free now. Oh, they're bickering as they try to get their government together, but those are natural growing pains. At least they are putting a government together. They'll make it work eventually. This is all new to them.
Any invasion that results in freedom for people who were lacking that is a good cause.
As for WMD...don't be too sure they don't exist.
Furious AND angry?
Oooooh!
Dubya made the mistake of keeping ol' Colon around much too long.
This is like knock knock anybody there, so was it Powell that sent Wilson to Africa to find "yellowcake"??????
That's like Mike Tyson calling a reporter "a scared coward"
Dr. Rice is already a better Secretary of State.
This magazine "article" seems a bit trumped up to me.
How come there is so much interpretaton of what Powell
said and very little quotation markings of what he
ACTUALLY said and in WHAT ORDER he said it? THis is the kind of "news report" we constantly read in the NTY or one of the super market tabloids. Not good journalism. I would advise NOT being taken in so quikly by this AUSTRALIAN blurb.
"The CIA believed there were weapons of mass destruction," Mr Powell said. "The President believed it. I believed it."
Oh man, I've got more bad news for you Mr.Powell. I STILL believe Saddam had WMD. Of course my opinion doesn't matter to anyone but myself and those who have seen and held Iraq's WMD (or all the components thereof)with their own eyes and hands. LOL -Didn't take Mr. Powell long to go off the reservation.