What about the Powell Doctrine?? (Score 1)

I was never in support of Bush or this war, clearly an administration in the pocket of big oil and the neo-cons... My great disappointment and lagging question is why did Collin Powell depart from his loyality based military mind set and prevent the deaths of all these brave soldiers and civilians by holding up the Powell doctrine when the war was being pushed by Bush's administration? This mess, the arguements for war, and the aspects of the situation that pointed clearly to the diaster that would occur were clearly predicted by the situations failure to meet any of the doctrine points. I would normally simply cross this off to the fact that America can't seem to learn anything from history, even our own. However, the fact that Powell developed the doctrine from the learnings of Vietnam when he was chief of staff and was sitting inside the administation as sec of state during the build up to war, DAMN.... It isn't a secret that Rums, Cheney, etc. successfully neutered Powell within the administration, but if there was ever a time for a soldier (or politican) to fall on his sword, this was it!! I lost great respect for Powell over this and can't believe the Powell Doctrine was never raised as a question during any of the build up to war discussions. Unbelieveable...