Colin Powell: 'We're not doing bad at all'

[Judi Lynn]

Colin Powell: 'We're not doing bad at all'

By CAROLYN THOMPSON
Associated Press Writer

October 19, 2005, 11:00 PM EDT

AMHERST, N.Y. -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday the United States is "not doing bad at all" diplomatically, despite anti-American sentiment over the war in Iraq.

"If you stand back a bit," Powell told an audience at the University at Buffalo, "you might see we have done very well in most parts of the world."
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"We're sorry so many people think he's a celebrity. We think he's a war criminal," said James Ulrich, a university photographer who held a sign: "Colin Powell, Have you no shame?"
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The university did not disclose Powell's speaking fee for the address.

"Anything is too much for someone who has done as much damage as Colin Powell has," said James Holstun of the UB Progressive Alliance, whose members handed out fliers questioning Powell's record outside the venue. Most headed inside declined to accept them.
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