There is probably no outrage because Gen. Powell has proven on many different occasions to be a capable leader. Most people realize that Gen. Powell is a good soldier who was just following orders.

wrongo. he wasn't ordered to lie, he was lied to and belived bush/cheney like a lot of people before they caught on to what criminals they are.
do you think powell would send kids to die on lies friom a scumbag like bush jr?
how dare you.

yes and then reagan sent rummy over to fawn over him. how ugly it was. thanks for reminding us what a total barfbag reagan was. he supported saddam after he gassed the kurds and then sold stolen weapons to islamic terrorists in iran.
reagan of course should have been hanged for treason i am sure you would agree.

kuwait our ally? are you really that naive or are you pretending? kuwait voted against us more times than the russians in the u.n and would not let american service personel sully their land even after reagan reflagged their oil tankers with american flags to keep the iranians from shelling them.
kuwait was stealing saddam's oil with slant drilling equipment the kuwaitis bought from america.
kuwait an ally? why do you think april glaspie told saddam we would not interfere if saddam attacked kuwait for stealing his oil?

I always believed that Gen. Powell is intelligent enough to understand the actual situation.

From the Sunday News published on May 17, 2009: