"I'm pretty comfortable with the record of this Administration in the first four years in foreign policy"
I don't know about you, but is saying "I'm pretty comfortable" sound like something you say when you are ACTUALLY proud of something? Do you say to your son, when he achieves something you're proud of, and want to communicate this to him, "I"m pretty comfortable" with that?
Why does Powell continue to remain silent, knowing as most of us do, how deeply troubled he was by the way the Bush administration ignored his advice, steered this country in the wrong direction, lied to them, and then quietly showed him the door. Bob Woodward captured this in his two books "Bush At War" and "PLan of Attack" (Powell's situation started off badly in the second book, which covered the Iraq developments, starting with 9/12, where Bush was already pushing everybody to focus on Iraq.
noticias - POWELL: Interview on Fox's Hannity & Colmes
And, frankly, when I look at what we've accomplished over the last four years, whether it has to do with doubling the amount of development assistance we're giving to the world, what we're doing with HIV/AIDS, the Sudan peace agreement that I witnessed the other day in Nairobi, the disarming of Libya, the way we brought attention on nuclear proliferation in Iran and Iraq, the free trade agreements we have entered into, the good relationship we have with China and with Russia, the progress we're now making in the Middle East, I'm pretty comfortable with the record of this Administration in the first four years in foreign policy and I'm pleased to have been able to play a role in that record.
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