Colin Powell

Everyone loves him, but it almost seems like he hitched his horse to the wrong post. His most notable "achievement" in the past four years has been going to the UN to sell the war in Iraq. And that was a big failure. Of course we still went, but his pleading didn't convince the UN to join along...and the ideologues, Rumsfeld, Cheney, etc won out. They were saying all along that the UN was worthless and by not being swayed by Powell's arguments, they were proven right.

I feel bad for Powell. He had a certain belief system about the way the world ought to work that didn't seem to fit in with the times. He put his faith in institutions unworthy of his faith - the UN and he put his loyalty in people unworthy of his loyalty - the Bush mafia. He is a good man, not a great man. He, like all good men, deserved better.