Colin Powell Quotes
You don’t quit when you are in the middle of a conflict…. My job was not to have a fit and walk out. My job was to give the President my best advice.
Powell’s views and advice to the President regarding Iraq were diametrically opposite that of Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and National Security Advisor Condy Rice. The President sadly rejected Powell’s advice. He was right, but he was also a trained professional staff man who maintains his loyalty and does not quit just because his advice is not taken. Many believe that if he had resigned in the political rather than military tradition, the nation might have been spared much of the loss and embarrassment the Iraq invasion and occupation cost us.
Colin Powell, U. S. Secretary of State (Republican), U. S. Army General, National Security Advisor, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Responding to Larry King’s question of why he did not resign when President George W. Bush did not listen to his advice about the Iraq war, Interview, CNN, The Larry King Show, June 28, 2007
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The Chancellor was referring to the United States George W. Bush proposal for war with Iraq.
Israel had again been attacked by Arab armies and at the same time the parties were in peace negotiations. Some argued that there should be a cease fire while negotiations were ongoing, but Rabin explained that if the two did not go on simultaneously and independently, neither might go well.
Referring to the many mistakes made in the implementation and planning of the Iraq War.
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Colin Luther Powell is an American politician, diplomat and retired four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. Powell was the first African-American Secretary of State. Prior to the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008, Powell and his successor, Condoleezza Rice, were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch (by virtue of the Secretary of State standing fourth in the presidential line of succession). Powell served as the 16th United States National Security Advisor from 1987 to 1989 and as the 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993.
