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Title: Spin, Spin, Spin
Review: My American Journey covers the familiar ground in Powell's life: Jamaican heritage, New York City, army, and Washington. It is such a transparent spin job that it's almost laughable. Powell blames everyone else for failures in Iraq, in Somalia, in Bosnia. His unwillingness to intervene in Bosnia, or even to understand the conflict there, was an appalling personal failure that led to thousands and thousands of pointless deaths. Powell has those corpses on his conscience. If the whitewash in this book is merely his way to manipulate the public and try to massage history, then its just duplicitous. But if it truly is his own distorted perception of events, then Colin Powell needs to pray hard for forgiveness.
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