reporter at the wall streetjournal. i think he grappled a lot with it, he was a proud man and once it became clear that there were new to eight no wmds in the intelligence, was wrong he was crestfallen to say the least. i don't think he george tended the cia director who showed him the intelligence was rock—solid. he knew that despite all his achievements, but a new to discuss, this would be part of his obituary and his legacy. despite playing that role in making the case to invade iraq, colin powell generally wasn't considered to be an ideological neoconservative — unlike the vice president dick cheney or the defence secretary donald rumsfeld. he was known to have argued with them — and with president george w bush — over the adminstration's iraq strategy. john negroponte was us ambassador to the uninted nations, at the time (sot one of his great accomplishments at