re: Colin Powell
"Unfortunately your argument has no merit in it. Clearly Powell thought just as the Clinton administration did that Sadaam was contained as posed no threat just as did every other Western goverment and intellifgence agency."
In Feb '01 this was also the view of the rest of Bush Adminstration, but then in Sept some people flew some airliners into some buildings. This forced the Adminstration to change it's view.