Left and right both piling on Powell (Toronto Star )

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Apr. 25, 2004. 01:00 AM
Left and right both piling on Powell

Secretary of State takes a licking in Woodward book `He looks disloyal
... somebody ready to jump ship'..."He's leaving,"

- Gary Schmitt of the neo-conservative Project for the New American Century.


TIM HARPER

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That he should use the Woodward book to try to air his differences while still in office did surprise them.


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It is Powell's apparent attempt to have it both ways — to appear to know better than the likes of Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Don Rumsfeld, while ultimately playing the good soldier — that has drawn fire from all sides.


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Powell warned of destabilizing friendly governments in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, diverting attention from the war on terrorism, sucking the oxygen out of everything else and having war define Bush presidency.


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He told the Washington Post earlier this year that, if he had the information he had today on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he could not be sure an invasion would be warranted.

He moved back into the parade route the next day, after Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, delivered a scolding on behalf of the president.

"Powell did not particularly enjoy being dressed down by someone 17 years younger, who held the job he had had 15 years earlier," Woodward writes.


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