called Peter Wallison -- Told him Colin Powell had only minimum involvement on Iran. |
He is saying that we should hand over power to the United Nations, ... The United Nations is totally incapable of doing any kind of job as pacifying or removing terrorism from a country like Iraq. |
He was just a worn-out guy. |
I think we could have done a little better, |
I was not persuasive enough to persuade the president that the Marines were there on an impossible mission. |
is a very minor matter, but made very important. ... It was made far bigger than its actual importance. |
just a lot of criticism and pessimism. |
They had no mission but to sit at the airport, which is just like sitting in a bull's-eye. I begged the president at least to pull them back and put them back on their transports as a more defensible position. |
This will not be an easy task. We are fully embarked on it, we are not embarked on it to go half-way, we are embarked on it to win. |
We are at war, |