Colin Powell
Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position. During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor, as Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Commandand as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holding the latter position during the Persian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 April 1937
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
This is election season. They're even having elections in Iraq. Saddam Hussein won,
It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced out of power and a new regime brought in, a new leadership brought in, I am confident it will be some combination of people inside the country and outside the country.
He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.
The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.
There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
But I have seen nothing that makes a direct connection between Saddam Hussein and that awful regime, and what happened on 9/11.
Unless North Korea ends its program, it cannot expect the benefits of relations with the outside world.
We have no intention of invading North Korea or taking hostile action against North Korea,
We strongly oppose it, ... It will cause us international difficulties, and it opens up other opportunities for others to try to seek similar relief.
We stand ready to help, but that help can only come when North Korea has abandoned its programs to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, something that the international community thought it had done years ago,
We didn't deal with Yasser Arafat when we were putting the road map together, and so his comments don't mean a whole lot to me.
ways to communicate with the people of Iran to convince them that the policies their leaders have been following are inappropriate.
The regime only allows interviews with inspectors in the presence of an Iraqi official, a minder, ... The official Iraqi organization charged with facilitating inspections announced, announced publicly and announced ominously that, 'Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.'
It is not up to Iraq to dictate the conditions to the United Nations, but for the United Nations to dictate the conditions to Iraq, ... If the United Nations does not act, then the United States, joined by other willing nations, must act.