Colin Powell may just be the most trusted leader in America. When asked who they trust more when it comes to U.S. policy on Iraq, President Bush or his Secretary of State, a Gallup poll released today says more than twice as many Americans chose Powell.
It seems appropriate, then, that he be the one to go before the United Nations Security Council and make that proverbial case against Saddam Hussein. Powell, after all, is regarded as the multilateralist, the moderate, the cautionary warrior on whom the Europeans count to bring a measure of restraint to a White House hell bent on war. Before September 11th, Powell was labeled the “odd man out” inside the Bush Administration. To the American public, however, he is now more “in” than ever.
Guests:
Johanna McGeary, Senior Foreign Correspondent for Time Magazine, author of Time’s September 10,2001 cover story, “Odd Man Out”
General Bernard Trainor, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, former military correspondent for the New York Times, co-author of “The Generals’ War.”