Powell said to cite 'civil war' in Iraq, flawed occupation
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Former secretary of state Colin Powell said yesterday at a business conference here that the war in Iraq "could be considered a civil war," the conference organizer said.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell called on Europe Wednesday to reconcile with Washington following their bitter division over the US-led war in Iraq.
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The carnage in Iraq is "sectarian violence," President Bush says. It's a "struggle for freedom," the "central front in the war on terror." It is not, no matter how much it may look like it, a civil war.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell told President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair last month that there were too few troops in Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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27 September 2004 -- US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said the insurgency in Iraq is getting worse. Speaking in Washington, Powell said yesterday that militants want to disrupt elections in January, but
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday expressed strong disapproval of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s description of the US-led war in Iraq as illegal, saying the comment was &quot;not a very useful statement to make at this point.
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An Iraqi report about missing munitions intensifies the debate over the Bush Administration's handling of the war
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell gestures during a press conference at the end of a two-day conference focusing on Iraq&#39;s stabilization at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004.
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The term "civil war" accurately describes some of the main elements of the violence in Iraq, concludes a U.S. intelligence report released on Friday.
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The British deputy to the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Tuesday the country's sectarian conflict is not a full-blown civil war but could be described as a "civil war in miniature."
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ATLANTA - Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday he regrets the Bush administration claimed that Iraq had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in its argument for war, but he believes the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.    Following a speech to the Atlanta Press Club, Powell defended the bulk of his presentation to the United Nations in February 2003 in which he made the case for war in Iraq...
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In a new memoir, former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson recounts her shock as she watched then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, appearing before the United Nations on the eve of war, deliver what she knew to be a flawed portrait of the intelligence on Iraq.
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WASHINGTON  - US Secretary of State Colin Powell urged that Sunni Muslims be fairly represented in a new Iraqi government despite threats by many Sunnis to boycott elections expected to produce a big win for the Shiite majority.
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Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright on Tuesday said that the war in Iraq was "a chosen war, not one based on a necessity". But, in an interview with the Austria Press Agency, Albright said: "To ...
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The former civilian head of the American occupation of Iraq says the United States didn&#39;t have enough troops in Iraq immediately following the ouster of Saddam Hussein -- and &quot;paid a big price&#39;&#39; for it.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said  on Tuesday the United States cannot wilt in the face of the  Iraqi insurgency and suggested critics of the war in Iraq were  becoming rattled and defeatist.
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In a previous article on Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, I wrote that his career was framed by Iraq, a shorthand for the first and second wars in Iraq.