Don't fault Colin. He is probably acting under orders. Don't forget how IsARat plays this game: Talking nice to one party, and talking malevolently to another. Have you not thought that maybe Colin is playing 'Nice Cop' to Rumsfeld's 'Bad Cop'?
Are you excusing Powell? Remember, this is the same guy who has said that Fidel Castro has done some good things as a Communist Dictator. He has even refered to himself as a "New Deal" kid from the Bronx. And you know that just about everything that happened under FDR was awful for America not in the short run but in the long run. And too your comment about calling Rumsfeld a bad cop- I don't understand your thinking behind that.
Also, Powell has said on many occasions that he could have served in any administration being that he is not really a Republican. No, Lazamataz, Powell is a perfumed Prince just as Col. David Hackworth refers to people like him.
By the way, who is IsArat?