THE LEASH IS OFF

Powell out

http://slate.com/id/2109772/
And so the other shoe has dropped on the sad career of Colin Powell…Powell's "resignation" this morning was one of the surest bets of a second Bush term. He had long endured a string of humiliating defeats at the hand of his Pentagon rival Donald Rumsfeld. For well over a year now, he's been out of the loop on every high-profile issue of