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...Borlaug’s 90th birthday party earlier this year, Colin Powell led the singing of “Happy Birthday” in his honor. But, according to Quinn, when Peter Jennings came to interview Borlaug, he had already left for Africa...
...this point the U.S. doesn't have anywhere else to turn. The Administration is still betting that by enlisting Brahimi, it may have hit upon a solution to the Pottery Barn problem--Colin Powell's warning to President Bush before the war that if the U.S. "broke" Iraq, it would own it. "If we are helping the occupation do anything," Brahimi says, "We're helping them get out." It's a testament to the state of the U.S. enterprise in Iraq that the Administration is hard pressed to come up with a better definition of success...
...Secretary of State Colin Powell had been piling on the pressure in recent weeks, demanding that the CIA be held to account for a number of false statements vetted by the Agency that made it into Powell's United Nations Security Council speech indicting Iraq on Feb. 5, 2003. Tenet, a holdover from the Clinton administration had let it be known that he wanted out of the job after November, but his premature resignation marks him as the highest-profile political casualty thus far of the Iraq...
...Gore or even Colin Powell were President, the U.S. and Britain would almost certainly not be in this Vietnam-like quagmire. A blinkered President and his Secretary of Defense, ignoring the warnings of many, implemented a gung-ho unilateralism that has alienated allies and is sending thousands of angry young men into the arms of Osama bin Laden. Do Americans realize how low their country's reputation has sunk? The 9/11 attacks were a tragedy, but they provided an opportunity for a police action against terrorists that, combined with multilateral diplomacy, could have won the battle for Muslim hearts...
...I.N.C. as part of the Information Collection Program (ICP), an I.N.C.-run operation aimed at gathering intel on the former regime--came on May 8, according to someone familiar with the plan. It occurred at a principals' meeting attended by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and CIA director George Tenet. On May 13, DIA officials who worked with the I.N.C. abandoned their office in Baghdad. The next day, the Iraqis who had been working there brought three trucks into the compound to take away files and computers from the office...