[Berlin_Freeper]

"when you were allowed to march right into Baghdad "

Powell was the head of the State Department, not the Pentagon which is Rumsfeld.

Powell's failure was to get the UN (namely the French) to live up to its Resolutions.

All reports show that Saddam was surprised Baghdad fell so fast and he had to make a wild dash for his life. His sons were trapped in hiding and he was cornered in a spider hole.

Obviously you are 100% wrong that the fall of Baghdad was Saddam's plan. Todays problem in Iraq is sectarian and Terrorist.

Saddam being humiliated on trial was not his plan.

[Naptowne]

"Powell's failure was to get the UN (namely the French) to live up to its Resolutions."

So now Powell is responsible for what France does? I suppose it was his fault that Russia and China were not on board also. Perhaps you should do a little more research on the topic so you can learn that France had an enormous econimic interest in keeping Hussein in power. When Hussein fell, billions of dollars in agreements and contracts between France and Iraq went up in smoke. France would not have supported the invasion of Iraq if Jerry Lewis was our Secretary of State.