The news did not come as a surprise and the tributes have been flowing thick and fast, even if it is doubtful Powell actually deserved them. One of the most succesful unchallenged lies promulgated by the Bush administration has to be that Powell was any kind of moderate. True, in comparision with moonbats like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld or general incompetents like Condi Rice Powell looks moderate, but his behaviour refutes this. He had drank of the neocon kool-aid just as much as any other Bush crony. He has always had something dodgy about him, as even a perfunctionairy look at his career shows.
After all, who was Colin Powell? A career soldier who first gained notoriety for his role in whitewashing the My Lai massacre, who was involved in the Iran Contra scandals and last but not least, who lied to the UN about Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction to justify an unnecessary war that may have cost more than 100,0000 civilian lives already. Every time it mattered, he was more than willing to help cover up US government crimes.
Therefore I don not think it matters much that Colin Powell has finally resigned; supposing he truly was a moderate influence within the Bush cabinet, he was remarkably ineffectual. Truly, nobody could do his job any worse, unless it would be Condi Rice.