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Colin Powell: Hey, Give Hillary a Break on Benghazi

Kush Wrote: Jan 15, 2013 2:59 PM
What were the political reasons for naming Powell Sec. of State? How many political hacks were in the Bush Administration?

Former General Colin Powell is a good American and an honorable soldier, but his habitual sucking up to the political Left has become as predictable as it is irksome.  To play armchair psychologist for a moment, I suspect Powell sensed he'd been stripped of his untouchable bipartisan status when he made the Bush administration's case for the Iraq war at the UN Security Council; he's been obsequiously seeking penance ever since.  Liberals' hatred of that war was largely an outgrowth of their enduring contempt for the Commander-in-Chief leading that effort (many on the Left are suddenly cool with American...

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