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...session Giuliani missed was a master class on Iraq. He would have gotten briefings from General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq; former Secretary of State Colin Powell; former Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki; and Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's former No. 3 civilian, among others. All told, says a staffer for the Iraq Study Group, "they had 40 of the top experts on Iraq brief them for hours. They had access to anyone they wanted...
...supported Bush when he went to Afghanistan after Osama bin Laden. I was one of the 30% who were against the Iraq war in 2002. I was one of the 50% who changed their mind when they saw then Secretary of State Colin Powell make his presentation to the U.N. Security Council. Now I am one of the 67% who do not support Bush anymore, and I find no need to apologize to anyone. Maharaj Mukherjee, Wappingers Falls, New York...
...like the Administrations record on terrorism. The abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the memo purporting to exempt the President from anti-terror laws probably pushed the justices in 2004 to grant detainees the right to go to court. An insider's harsh criticism of the tribunal system, Colin Powell's call for the closing of Guantanamo and the refusal of two military judges to proceed with tribunal hearings may be enough for the justices to grant detainees habeas this time. Third, at least five justices - John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Steven Breyer and, believe...
...Truman. And then the parade of New York presidential candidates stopped. A number of ambitious New York politicians looked like presidential timber, but Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Representative Jack Kemp failed to win their parties' nominations; Governor Mario Cuomo never declared his candidacy. Colin Powell was a flash in the pan; Donald Trump was a flash in his own brainpan. No New Yorker has headed a presidential ticket in almost 60 years --the longest New York drought in American history...
...Colin Powell said he "would close Guantánamo not tomorrow but this afternoon." How about four or five years ago, Mr. Powell, when you should have stood against the prison and the Iraq war prevarication...