Gestapo Government Powell felt Cheney and his allies -- his chief aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith and what Powell called Feith's "Gestapo" office -- had established what amounted to a separate government. The vice president, for his part, believed Powell was mainly concerned with his own popularity and told friends at a dinner he hosted a year ago celebrating the outcome of the war that Powell was a problem and "always had major reservations about what we were trying to do." If he felt this way prior to invading Iraq, why did Colin Powell agree to make the case to invade Iraq? Is Woodword's account correct? After the September 11th commission, there should be a WMD commission to investigate who played the drums of war--and who danced to the beat against the drumming of his own conscience. Attribution: