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In reply to the discussion: DO NOT BE FOOLED!!! [View all]pnwmom
(110,346 posts)99% of the media. Colin Powell was very highly regarded and both parties had once viewed him as a possible Presidential candidate, in the Dwight Eisenhower mode, before he decided to declare himself as a Republican.
Ted Kennedy has also explained that he made his decision to vote against the Iraq war resolution based on information that most other Senators did not have and that he wasn't allowed to share. He said that he knew the truth because of military briefings he had had as a member of the Armed Services Committee, but other Senators had been relying on the distortions and untruths of the Administration, which was all they had to go on. Hillary was NOT a member of the Armed Services Committee until later, and had no way to know Colin Powell and the others were lying.