Colin Powell: U.S. was set for war with Iraq before his U.N. speech

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Colin Powell: U.S. was set for war with Iraq before his U.N. speech | The Lookout - Yahoo! News

Powell points a finger at Dick Cheney and the former vice president's Chief of Staff Scooter Libby as the ones responsible for providing the inaccurate information about Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, the Huffington Post reports.

In the book, Powell notes the weapons of mass destruction case "was a disaster."

"I learned later that Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, had authored the unusable presentation, not the NSC staff. And several years after that, I learned from Dr. [Condoleezza] Rice that the idea of using Libby had come from the Vice President, who had persuaded the President to have Libby, a lawyer, write the 'case' as a lawyer's brief and not as an intelligence assessment."

How is it that these individuals are not being held for any sort of crime (even treason wouldn't be a stretch)??