Driving back from my accountant – where I got the happy news that this year, unlike last, my income taxes will not support the entire US government – I heard ABC Radio News reporting that Colin Powell says he might have been wrong. He referred to that address before the UN where he supplied what he thought was solid evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
All credit to Powell for admitting that. But it’s clear that he has been used, misused, by the President, Vice-President and Secretary of Defense. That is sad because Powell clearly is not a thug.
But it is just as clear that he is not a hero, either. Nobody gets used who doesn’t agree to it. When the chips were down, Powell followed orders. A real patriot would have put the country first, before its leaders, and quit.