clifto wrote:

Powell is a flaming, Bush-bashing, card-carrying liberal. Everything
he has said since the start of the Iraq war confirms it.

Huh??? Bush chose the "Bush-bashing, card-carrying liberal" Powell to
hold a very high position in his administration for four years and
additionally made his son Chairman of the FCC. THAT Bush-bashing
Powell?? Yeah, right. Get real!

Everything he [Powell] has said since the start of the Iraq war confirms it.

Are we talking about the same Powell here? The one whose impassioned
speech in front of the UN helped *start* the Iraq war???

Do you even remotely consider the possibility that Powell "saw the error
of his ways" and was man enough to want to set the record straight?