“I didn’t have any choice... What choice did I have? He’s the president.”

— Colin Powell

Source: Quoted in Colin Powell Was a Nice Man Who Helped Destroy Iraq, Peter Maass, https://theintercept.com/2021/10/18/colin-powell-dead-iraq/ The Intercept, (October 18, 2021)

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Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general 1937

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