You had a choice, sir

2006–10-06 (UPI) Powell’s wife says Bush used him

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 Former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s wife says in a new biography that President George W. Bush used her husband to sell the war in Iraq. In “Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell” by Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post, Alma Powell describes the administration’s treatment of her husband as callous. “They needed him to do it because they knew people would believe him,” Mrs. Powell said.

That may be true and many will believe this, just as many were willing to believe Powell over Bush back in late 2002, early 2003. But he had a choice. Powell, of all people, could have stopped the war drums beating by refusing to support a war that he now says he disagreed with.

Its too late for sympathy for Colin Powell.