Bush is the one that hired him. Swartzcoff was the real man behind the mission.
Powell was the one who ran whining to #41 when the first pictures of the Road to Basra were broadcast. The 24th mechanized and the 82n Air Assault had the Republican Guard double flanked as they headed away from Basra and Nassariah. They were within minutes of dispensing all of hell's fury on them and 41 told Stormin' Norman to pull off and orchestrate a cease fire.
Whatever may have happened if we could have decimated them quite probably may have negated our return in 2003.
Colin Powell also knew all along who the leaker was, from his own office, in the Valerie Plame scandal. He told Armitage not to say a word to anyone, Fitzpatrick also knew it but they let the presidency twist in the wind for 18 months in a time of war (during the surge in Iraq) until they found someone to pin a bogus perjury trap on. Colin Powell is not a patriot.