What about Colin Powell?

What about Colin Powell? Did he support the Iraq war then as he was doing now?

(By the way, it’s interesting to hear the anti-Powell camp claiming that he didn’t even support the war on Iraq and that he supported the war on terror at this time. The truth is the opposite. Powell was a huge supporter of the war on terror and was one of the first to suggest that after 9-11 that the U.S. should get involved in the Middle East for good (evenWhat about Colin Powell? Are U.S. companies afraid of him? Or does the Bush administration fear his interventionist approach and urge them to put a lid on it?

The Bush administration has been trying to silence a man who has led the charge since Powell took office in January 2001 to try to stop the “war on terror.” As the Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank noted in his April 26 editorial, Powell has been “the leading intellectual critic of the administration’s war policies.”

“Since his inauguralWhat about Colin Powell?

The question of how much of a threat the “oil for food” program is to Iraqi sovereignty has been debated for months.

There was a lot of confusion regarding the issue when, as the Bush administration was preparing for what would become the war on terrorism, a former World Bank official claimed that oil for food could, in effect, create a new state in Iraq.

In a TV interview aired last week, former World Bank chief economist Peter G. Peterson, who now is

title: What about Colin Powell?

What about Colin Powell? Did he support the Iraq war then as he was doing now?

(By the way, it’s interesting to hear the anti-Powell camp claiming that he didn’t even support the war on Iraq and that he supported the war on terror at this time. The truth is the opposite. Powell was a huge supporter of the war on terror and was one of the first to suggest that after 9-11 that the U.S. should get involved in the Middle East for good (evenWhat about Colin Powell? Are U.S. companies afraid of him? Or does the Bush administration fear his interventionist approach and urge them to put a lid on it?

The Bush administration has been trying to silence a man who has led the charge since Powell took office in January 2001 to try to stop the “war on terror.” As the Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank noted in his April 26 editorial, Powell has been “the leading intellectual critic of the administration’s war policies.”

“Since his inauguralWhat about Colin Powell?

The question of how much of a threat the “oil for food” program is to Iraqi sovereignty has been debated for months.

There was a lot of confusion regarding the issue when, as the Bush administration was preparing for what would become the war on terrorism, a former World Bank official claimed that oil for food could, in effect, create a new state in Iraq.

In a TV interview aired last week, former World Bank chief economist Peter G. Peterson, who now is

title: What about Colin Powell?

What about Colin Powell?

John Bolton and the neoconservative attack on diplomacy

by Fred Kaplan

April 13, 2018

John Bolton’s tenure as National Security Adviser was a long time coming. He had been one of the architects of the catastrophic strategy that led to the disastrous invasion of Iraq, which was followed by the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

When he left the military in 2001, he had been appointed as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, a position heWhat about Colin Powell? If anything, he is in some ways the best positioned for a new generation to succeed.

Powell’s biggest challenge is to convince the United States and Israel to return to him the chair of the U.N. Security Council, which he has held for more than a year. The other members of the council, Britain, Japan, the EU, Russia and the United States, won’t all want to be back in the same seat.

Powell also might have to persuade ChinaWhat about Colin Powell? He was Secretary of State under George Bush. I had met him in early 2001 when I helped write the UN Security Council report that was used to justify war against Iraq even though the UN was supposed to have been the final arbiter of international sanctions. I think that he was an ally. I recall him saying, “I will be there for you.” I also heard him say, “If you are right, I will support you.” I don’t think he was always right, but he was

title: What about Colin Powell?

What about Colin Powell?

John Bolton and the neoconservative attack on diplomacy

by Fred Kaplan

April 13, 2018

John Bolton’s tenure as National Security Adviser was a long time coming. He had been one of the architects of the catastrophic strategy that led to the disastrous invasion of Iraq, which was followed by the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

When he left the military in 2001, he had been appointed as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, a position heWhat about Colin Powell? If anything, he is in some ways the best positioned for a new generation to succeed.

Powell’s biggest challenge is to convince the United States and Israel to return to him the chair of the U.N. Security Council, which he has held for more than a year. The other members of the council, Britain, Japan, the EU, Russia and the United States, won’t all want to be back in the same seat.

Powell also might have to persuade ChinaWhat about Colin Powell? He was Secretary of State under George Bush. I had met him in early 2001 when I helped write the UN Security Council report that was used to justify war against Iraq even though the UN was supposed to have been the final arbiter of international sanctions. I think that he was an ally. I recall him saying, “I will be there for you.” I also heard him say, “If you are right, I will support you.” I don’t think he was always right, but he was