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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Bill who wrote (107557)8/21/2005 12:06:55 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
From everything that I have read, Powell was very dubious about quite a lot of what the CIA was telling him before he have the speech at the U.N. He was also very dubious about the U.S. going to war with Iraq the way it did. Perhaps you have forgotten that Powell was the token moderate in the first Bush administration? Many Democrats thought very highly of him and believed he was a man of honor and integrity. I believe he did argue his position privately within the administration, but of course those neocons were chomping at the bit to go to war, and small problems like the possibility of huge civilian casualties, increasing bad feelings against the U.S. all over the world, and the total lack of a post-war plan in a tribal area the U.S. didn't understand at all did not seem to be anything these people wanted to hear about.

Unfortunately for all of us and the Iraqis, Powell ultimately decided to trust the intelligence he was given, which of course turned out to be inaccurate.
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