REMINDING COLIN POWELL of what he said then.

I know some people still like him for President, but he seems to have a history of saying what people want to hear at the time. And sometimes he does it retroactively . . . . And if he was just “being loyal” then, does that make him more credible now?

UPDATE: Ross Douthat said it better:

Maybe had Powell won more bureaucratic battles, everything would have gone swimmingly in Iraq, and the fact that it didn’t is all Donald Rumsfeld/Dick Cheney/George W. Bush’s fault. But given that he was present at the creation, not just part of the government that took us to war but one of its leaders, there was something a little off-putting about his self-justifying explanation that he tried to stop it, and besides it was the right thing to do, and anyway the fact that it fell apart is somebody else’s fault.

Yeah.