Nimbus askew: Colin Powell took a shot at President Bush’s current campaign to force the Congress to give him permission to torture terror suspects when Sen. John McCain released a letter from Powell that said, in part:
“The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism,” Powell said, adding that Bush’s proposal “would add to those doubts. Furthermore, it would put our troops at risk.”
This is the same Colin Powell, of course, who allowed President Bush and the White House political office to shred his already tattered reputation when, on February 5, 2003, they sent him to the United Nations to make their case for war against Saddam Hussein.
We now know — as many of us suspected at the time — that Powell’s presentation that day was filled with lies, half-truths and misinformation.
Powell has subsequently tried to excuse misleading the citizens of the United States, not to mention the world, is that he did not know his presentation was false — which, in a different era, would make what he said that day even worse.
Pundits say that Powell is a good soldier at his core, and therefore won’t rat out George W. Bush while the president is in office, but that he is writing a book that will be released after 2008 that will include the truth behind the administration’s campaign to “market” (their term) the war to the American public in 2002 and 2003.
Talk about too little to late.
If he cared more about the country he took an oath to defend, he’d release the book now. But his Republicanism outweighs his patriotism, and that was the problem when he addressed the U.N. I read Powell’s first autobiography and found it one long justificaton for Iraq I, and how it was fought, and why he supported pulling out before the job was done. Powell is neither humble nor brilliant, but he’s just likeable enough for people to want to pretend he’s both.
POWELL wants to stay alive for a while….Given what the world KNOWS about “The Connetticut Yankee BUTCHER in the white house pretending to be a Tex ass Goodolboy, he SHOULD WATCH HIS STEP—there are plenty of LYNCH GANGS WORKING FOR THE BUSHES….
who would just love to hang POWELL’s —-ASS!