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| Colin L. Powell responds to Woody's book |
| 2004-04-20 |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #3 Here is a good section: SECRETARY POWELL: My obligation to the President, to the American people and to my colleagues on the National Security Council is to make sure that we all consider all the options. And what's being reported, and the reference you just made, is I made sure the President understood, and he did understand, that it was going to be a difficult mission in the aftermath of the war. And we have had a tough couple of weeks, as the President has said, but Saddam Hussein is gone and that regime is gone. We have the money we need to reconstruct the country. We have millions of Iraqis who want their country reconstructed and placed on a democratic foundation. And we've got some people who are fighting against that and we have to defeat those enemies of peace and freedom. MR. GEDDA: Woodward said you were despondent, or semi-despondent, after the meeting with the President on January 13th. SECRETARY POWELL: Semi-despondent? I don't know what semi-despondent means. I'm not sure that I was either semi-despondent or despondent. The President and I had a good conversation. I left and went about my business. My job was to continue to pursue the diplomatic track. MR. GEDDA: Did you talk to Woodward? SECRETARY POWELL: We all talked to Woodward. It was part of our instructions from the White House, just as we did with his first book. It was an opportunity to help him write a history, a contemporary history, of this period. It was no secret that all of us were encouraged to talk to Mr. Woodward. In my case, it was just a couple phone calls. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-04-20 3:38:49 PM |
| #2 Here is a new link. It seems to have moved. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-04-20 3:31:43 PM |
| #1 Powell: I know what he wants and I work every day, 14, 16 hours a day, trying to give him what he wants. Hmmm...I would have thought he worked more than that...like 27 hours a day. |
| Posted by: B 2004-04-20 9:27:20 AM |