Colin Powell calls’em like he sees them.

A furious row has broken out over claims in a new book by BBC broadcaster James Naughtie that US Secretary of State Colin Powell described neo-conservatives in the Bush administration as 'fucking crazies' during the build-up to war in Iraq.

Rumsfeld responded by saying that he calls a spade a spade and that indeed Powell was a spade.

via (da mefi)