From The New York Times:
I've always liked Colin Powell (yes, I can have a positive opinion of a high-ranking Republican) because of his straight-shooter-ness and his command of whatever situation he's in. I think one of the greatest failures of the Bush Administration was letting him go. Knowing he was trying to fix the quagmire we're in as it was unfolding only raises my opinion of him. But the fact that people inside the Bush administration were telling the Commander in Chief what was going wrong and where Iraq was headed reduces my opinion of the competence of the Administration even further.
Colin L. Powell, in his last face-to-face meeting with President Bush before stepping down as secretary of state in January 2005, tried to impress upon him one last time the dangers he saw the United States facing in Iraq, according to a new Powell biography.
The insurgency was growing and the country was spiraling into sectarian bloodshed, Mr. Powell warned. Elections in Iraq would not solve the problems, and the president’s ability to act decisively was being crippled by divisions within his own administration, according to the account in “Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell” (Knopf, 2006) by Karen DeYoung, an associate editor at The Washington Post. Mr. Bush appeared disengaged, the book says, and brushed off Mr. Powell’s complaints about dysfunction in his government.
I've always liked Colin Powell (yes, I can have a positive opinion of a high-ranking Republican) because of his straight-shooter-ness and his command of whatever situation he's in. I think one of the greatest failures of the Bush Administration was letting him go. Knowing he was trying to fix the quagmire we're in as it was unfolding only raises my opinion of him. But the fact that people inside the Bush administration were telling the Commander in Chief what was going wrong and where Iraq was headed reduces my opinion of the competence of the Administration even further.
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