The Dick Cheney vs. Colin Powell beef is really 2 Rockefeller Republicans having a pissing match. In this case, Cheney is in the right. The supposed cheap shot that Dick Cheney took at Powell is just factual. Back in 2002, Powell who was Secretary of State, wanted an International conference on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. This was outside  Bush policy and Powell was reprimanded for this. According to Cheney, Powell was never a team player after that.

In April 2002, Secretary of State Powell suggested an international conference on Israel and Palestine, a departure from administration policy. Mr. Cheney writes that he called National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to suggest she tell Mr. Powell “he was once more out of line with the president’s policy.” She did so and Mr. Powell apologized.

Looking back, Mr. Cheney writes, Mr. Powell and his deputy, Richard Armitage, seemed to take this walk-back as “a personal affront to the secretary.” Mr. Cheney then picked up through the grapevine that both men “were not only failing to support the president’s policies, but were openly disdainful of them.” He writes: “Now it was as if a tie had been cut.” Secretary Powell continued to serve until January 2005.

This is what Colin Powell was whining about over the weekend?