Powell re: Iraq >> "defining problem for this administration."

[sabra]

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8HDP2PGD.html

Powell addresses Austin tech conference

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Powell also turned his attention to the war in Iraq, which he called the "defining problem for this administration."

"We're at a difficult moment, and we have to build up Iraqi forces as quickly as we can," he said. "You have to have a government system that the people believe in."

Powell made headlines in an interview aired by the British Broadcasting Corp. last week. He told the BBC that during the planning stages of the war, he wasn't sure that the United States had deployed a force large enough to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and secure the peace.

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He said the thing he misses most in civilian life is easy access to an airplane.

"It was so nice. I had my own (Boeing) 757, and anywhere I went in the world it would be waiting for me. They took my plane away, and they gave it to Condi," he joked, referring to current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

[Master Mahon]

1. And Colon Bowell is a defining problem for this country!

[BattyDem]

2. Oh shut up! You're just as responsible as the rest of them!

You lied to the UN and the world. Nothing you can say will ever regain my respect! :grr:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. Thanks a lot, Mr. Secretary Powell, but

it's too little too late, and you were nothing but a WH collaborator who might have resigned and spoken out and become the hero you'd like to think you are, but, hey -------

YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A REPUBLICAN SUCKASS.

Go away.

You rendered your own self irrelevant by your silence and assent.