Replying to a message of Dan Ceppa to Bob Ackley:

 BA>> IMO Colin Powell was a better man and better qualified for his job
 BA>> and the top job than any other member of Bush minor's
 BA>> administration.  And yet he was never more than a figurehead.  He
 BA>> finally did resign, but far too late to do any good; 

 DC> That's my impression, as well.  

 BA>> IMO he kept thinking that things would
 BA>> change and/or believed what Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld were telling him. 
 BA>> Had it been me, I'd've resigned - publicly - the day I found out I
 BA>> was being lied to. 

 DC> It qould have saved his political career.  However, I think the
 DC> problem was that he was still too much "the good soldier" and
 DC> couldn't bring himself to  dis his CIC.  

That's my impression as well.  Unfortunately that was not reciprocated -
or maybe fortunately, because that revealed the character of the administration.

 DC> The 'what ifs' had he done so are enormous.  After all, he and others 
 DC> warned the admin of the problems involved in inbvading Iraq. I doubt 
 DC> we would be in such a mess in the middle east if their words were
 DC> heeded.

"You break it, you own it."  Great quote.

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