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...dignify your comments about the President, because you don't know what you're talking about ..." Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State, during a congressional hearing in which Representative Sherrod Brown referred to allegations that Bush may not have fulfilled his National Guard duty...
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told lawmakers on the Hill that those weapons might still be found; CIA chief George Tenet defended his intelligence by suggesting there's no such thing as perfection in his business; and the apostate Colin Powell was back in his pew after suggesting he might have some doubts about how we got here. The message from all sides was essentially this: We weren't wrong, and if we were, no one can prove it. Bush himself chose to walk into the lion's den, sitting down with Tim Russert on NBC's Meet the Press...
...just the attacks from outside that roused Team Bush to action; it was the whiff of mutiny from within. Secretary of State Colin Powell, says a longtime ally, "went out to the CIA a year ago and personally went through every piece of intelligence. He's very concerned now about his own credibility." After Powell told the Washington Post that he didn't know if he would have recommended going to war had he known then that there were no stockpiles of weapons after all, the White House had no choice but to speak out--and fast. Bush allies widely...
...know." COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, when asked whether he would have recommended an invasion of Iraq had he known that it had no stockpiles of banned weapons; later he reiterated that the President's decision to go to war was correct...
...course, one factor we risk losing track of in all this is the healing power of the doctor as a human being willing to tune in to you. Dr. Colin Phoon, a pediatric cardiologist at the New York University School of Medicine, writes in a provocative essay titled "Must Doctors Still Examine Patients?" that being examined "has a calming effect on anxious patients, [and] a placebo effect on somatic but nonorganic complaints." Touch, we seem at risk of forgetting, is a basic part of the healing process, a fundamental expression of caring. Yes, an echocardiogram is technically better than...