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   Tuesday, November 16, 2004

   COLIN CLEANSING

(C'mon -- someone had to go there; it might as well be me!)

The political career of Colin Powell has reached its sad, inevitable end. I'm glad he was finally let go, however -- oh sorry, he "resigned" -- because he's escaping an abusive relationship. He was ignored by Bush, plotted against by Donald Rumsfeld, told about the first strike on Iraq after the Saudi ambassador(!) and now replaced by the dreadful Condoleezza Rice. Oh, and a White House intern gave him the leaky pens.

It's agreed by pretty much everyone that Powell was the only dissenting voice in the White House during the build-up to the Iraq debacle. Nevertheless, like the good soldier he's always been, he went to the UN and delivered this now-infamous speech on a need to invade based on Saddam's (barely-existent) "weapons of mass destruction."

History will have to decide if he knew it was all crap -- making him a liar -- or if he truly believed the evidence he was handed -- making him a stooge. An unpleasant choice unworthy of a previously admirable man.

Labels: America, George W Bush, war - what is it good for?