Bushies 'used' Colin Powell, wife sez

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Bushies 'used' Colin, wife sez
But Powell wouldn't quit - book

BY CORKY SIEMASZKO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER



In new book, Colin Powell's wife is quoted saying White House took advantage of husband to sell Iraq invasion.

Colin Powell fought the Viet Cong, but he was no match for the Bush administration hard-liners who "used" his prestige to sell the Iraq war to the American people, his wife says.

In "Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell," Powell's wife, Alma, says the former secretary of state was "callously used to promote a war she wished had never happened," author Karen DeYoung writes.

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