Interview: Jasper Gerard meets Colin Powell

Yes, Iran is like Iraq ... ...... but let’s not rush in....

There is no cavalcade, no parade, no men in braid. Just an old boy in a trench coat wandering alone down windy streets. He could be any lost American tourist. Except this is Manchester and he is attracting way too many gawpers: “I have had a row with my mate,” burbles a taxi driver. “I swore I just saw Colin Powell, but my mate said, ‘What would he be doing in Manchester?’” A fair question. One Powell — until recently among the most powerful men on the planet — must have asked himself when the taxi collecting him was too small for his luggage. The general who held the world enthralled at the United Nations when he produced “irrefutable and undeniable evidence” that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction is now on the speaking circuit.

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