Colin Powell hasn't had a free hand; he's been constrained by the very public presence of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld saying things that made his job much, much harder, and by the fact that he couldn't, on orders of his boss, agree to most possible sensible compromises.
The first reports I saw, of the guy in Beaufort, and the first few places that copied him, seemed pretty good-natured. They seemed to be deliberately expressing criticism of France's position on Iraq in a way that wouldn't do any real damage to anything--no call for boycotts, for instance.
The idiocy in the House of Representatives is another matter. They appear to have no grasp of the fact that this a completely unserious thing to be doing (surely several people there are old enough to have dim childhood memories of "victory salad"?), ranting on as if this were a significant thing to do. Of course, this may be understandable, because in Congress, the alternative to defending American honor in this silly way might turn out to be having a genuine discussion of the wisdom and purpose of Bush gang's headlong rush to war.
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