j. crowley. now for me, united states assistant secretary state on skype from alexandria virginia. condolences, i would say, 1st of all, i'm sure you knew mister power. and the fact that as a saying with kimberly how could correspond to before column. how it was a man who seemed to transcend political, divides, didn't matter which party you were from. he certainly elevated, was elevated to the role of statesmen. late in his life where he provided quiet counsel to a president of both parties and that spirit of bipartisanship and statesmanship is something that, you know, we're, we're certainly struggling to hold onto, you know, given here in the united states, we're in an error of hyper partisanship and political expediency, we can't talk about colon power without talking about his legacy as a secretary of state and the iraq war of 2003 it's, it's been talked about so much. lawrence called was saying to us earlier about how the speech that he gave to the united nations was actually turned down fro

j. crowley is a former assistant secretary of state, he says column power may have made mistakes, but he was willing to take responsibility. there are 2 bookends when it comes to colin powell in iraq. i served as a military officer during the 1st gulf war, where the united states under his leadership acted decisively acted, you know, in concert with other regional powers, international powers to drive the iraqi army out of kuwait. and i think you then suffered from group think, you know, together was so was other colleagues on the national security team they had to they, they felt earnestly based on their previous history. that saddam hussein was hiding something. and, and in spite of the slim evidence that he was but, but then again, you know, to his credit, he was accountable. you know, he, he admitted, you know, his mistakes later about is not something that we've heard across the bush national security team. turning out to some other days, other news and flooding and landslides have kill. let me 35 people in 7 india in the state of caroline. the past week rescue operations by the