# Gimme some dirt on Colin Powell

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 27, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-dirt-on-colin-powell/409653 "2007-06-27T17:08:00Z")\
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[QUOTE=madmonk28]  
…Clinton once remarked that he’d like to use the US military to stop the slaughter if only Powell would let him borrow it.  
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Good on ya, Bill, if ya did. He was quoting Lincoln, who famously said that if shilly-shallying Gen. George McClellan wasn’t going to use the Army of the Potomac, he (Lincoln) would like to borrow it.

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