Other Peoples' Deaths

According to Plan of Attack, Book By A Hack:

Powell felt Cheney and his allies -- his chief aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby; Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz; and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith and what Powell called Feith's "Gestapo" office -- had established what amounted to a separate government. The vice president, for his part, believed Powell was mainly concerned with his own popularity and told friends at a dinner he hosted a year ago celebrating the outcome of the war that Powell was a problem and "always had major reservations about what we were trying to do."

I'm less interested in Powell's ass-saving analogy than the fact that Draft-avoiding Dick threw a dinner party celebrating the "outcome" of the war. People continue to die one year later because of Cheney's desire for a theme party.

Powell, meanwhile, needs to complete his analogy with reference to his own role.