Powell On The Up

Well blow me down and clamp my butt to a WMD! Colin Powell has a sense of humour! Who would have guessed (after all, he IS ex-military). No doubt Powell is enjoying all the recent negative press reports of his arch-nemesis Donald "Ducky" Rumsfeld.

When asked if Washington would withdraw its agonising efforts to encourage a new UN proposal on Iraq, Powell played with the press reporters in a positively jovial fashion:

"I'm not thinking of pulling it at the moment, but I might by Monday."

"But I'm not thinking of pulling it, not at all, not at all."

"Did you hear that? Not at all, yet."

"Yet."