no way the media likes to make Powell out to be some anti-war lefty while he really had the same opinion as McCain the decision to go into Iraq was correct but the military strategy was wrong.

I disagree. Powell tried to talk the President out of invasion. He know from Desert Storm what a cluster it would be.

He's also pissed at the administration that handed him a bunch BS intel, wound him up and sent him to the UN. They made a fool of him.

With an Obama administration he could set things right.

For Obama, he gets someone from the other side of the aisle. His credibility on Iraq and Afghanistan would be unassailable.

Ironically, the biggest negative is that he's African American!