Powell To The Rescue?

[Mark E. Smith]

Radar Online 9/7

With George W. Bush's approval rating at an all-time low following the bungled hurricane relief effort, sources say the White House has turned to the most trusted man ever associated with the administration to save the president's political bacon. The only question is, will Colin Powell take the job?

Ever since Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu "asked the president point blank to appoint a cabinet-level official within 24 hours to oversee the emergency operations," people have waited to see who the candidate would be, says Landrieu's spokesman Brian Richardson. "We still haven't gotten an answer."

If Powell is indeed the appointee, as D.C. sources say likely, it would give the former secretary of state and general the opportunity to reprise his Gulf War leadership on America's own gulf coast. It would also give Powell, who left the administration amid infighting over foreign policy, a chance to receive a hero's welcome on the world stage - something his reputation could use after he appeared before the United Nations with bogus proof of Saddam Hussein's illegal weapons program.

http://www.radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/2005/09/07/index.php

[skooooo]

1. With George W. Bush's approval rating at an all-time low ...

What is his approval rating now?

[olddad56]

29. I think that Bush has proven that he doesn't care about approval ratings

he cares about whether or not the oil industry approves of his job.

[Coventina]

2. FUCK COLIN POWELL!!!!!

If the American people fall for that shit I will have lost the remaining crumb of respect for them!!!!!

[BootinUp]

3. I hope he turns them down.

THey need to twist in the wind a little longer. It would serve to relieve pressure on Bush which is exactly what we do not want.

[Mark E. Smith]

8. I'm not sure the Bushies would quite trust him

Powell might insist on being as open and forthright as possible about the myriad failures of the initial Bush admin response to the Katrina disaster. Something the Bushies would rather not see, I'm sure.

I doubt Powell would want to find himself in the position of having to lie for these people again.

[howmad1]

24. Baloney

Powell will have KKKRoves' hand up his ass playing him like the puppet that he is. Powell is as evil as the rest of the bush crime family.

[Lorien]

27. I don't. The victims need him

FEMA isn't doing jack without a legitimate leader.

[tom_paine]

4. Colon Foul is a disgusting liar and traitor

If THAT swine is their "most trusted man", then they DON'T HAVE a "trusted man".

Colon Foul will further cement his position of "house n***er" if he comes when his Masters whistle.

[Turbineguy]

5. I thought Bush

was sending Cheney down to "organize" things.

[SOS]

13. Maureen Dowd

reports that Cheney has been on vacation and is in the process of buying another $3 million mansion on the Chesapeake Bay. Maybe once he closes on his new mansion he'll find the time to visit the Gulf Coast.

[iconoclastic cat]

6. He should be referred to as "'E.' Colin Powell".

[Gyre]

7. Hey he's qualified. He's black!

AND he's a suckup.

[Toots]

9. Dealing with black people you need a black person

That has been their thought process from day one. Remember when the Congressional black caucus wanted to meet with Bush* at the Whitehouse. Bush* sent Rice and Powell to meet with them but he personally would not do so. Bush* and his Cabal just don't know how to relate to black folk, never have and never will.....Imagine a country where you don't need and adjective in front of the words folk or people or person. No "black" folk or "white" folk just folks. As long as people such as the current crop of Republicans hold power that can never be. They thrive on division.

[jsamuel]

10. Don't do it Colin... it wouldn't be good for our country or the people who

need help.

[bee]

11. ok.. so theyve turned to a LIAR

to win back the trust of the American people?
perfect. This will bring his LIES about Iraq back into the spotlight. Id like America to be reminded of the reasons he resigned.

[PDX Bara]

12. Disappointment

I haven't been so disappointed in long time as I was when Colin Powell "came out" as a Republican and hasn't done much since then to redeem himself in my opinion.

[SOS]

14. "the most trusted man"

The United Nations, February 5, 2003.
Powell's credibility died that day and nothing will bring it back.
Not even a photo op in Gulfport.

[yorkiemommie1]

15. He's going to hold up a vial of Swamp Water

I do not trust this man to tell the truth.

[UpInArms]

16. What fresh whore is this?

Just Powell back to lick his masta's boots.

:puke:

[bemildred]

17. Silent Powell's no hero on Iraq

After watching the excellent CNN Presents documentary "Dead Wrong" with David Ensor a few weeks back - it's about the President's commission on the intelligence failures leading up to the Iraqi war - it turns out it wasn't failure at all.

---

The chicken hawk neo cons of the Bush administration, who were salivating for war, drooling to send anybody's kids but their own to fight and die, needed a patsy to sell the case for war in Iraq to the world.

They needed someone beyond reproach. They needed a man with military and street cred. So they went to the only man with combat experience in the upper echelon of the Bush administration, the son of a Jamaican immigrant from Fox St. in the South Bronx, a guy who was educated in the rough-and-tumble public schools of New York City where 9/11 had happened, who graduated with a B.A. in geology from CCNY.

They went to Colin Powell.

http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/343117p-293030c.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. SCREW POWELL. We listened to him once and look what we got

Never again should anything he says be believed.

[420inTN]

19. It will be hard for BushCo to find anyone more qualified.

eom

[DURHAM D]

20. Sponge Powell would be perfect.

It has become obvious that Powell is nothing but a sponge. He has no real views of his own. He takes on the agenda of his owners. Send him to the gulf - he can just soak up all the water.

[NNN0LHI]

21. Yea he did such a great time lying his ass off at the UN...

...he could probably lie real good here too. Deceitful prick.

Don

[0007]

22. Harry Bellfonte sez Colin Powell will come dancing in & singing

"Swanee how I love you, how I love you, my dear 0' Swanee.......

.....and in the back kitchen Condi will be cooking brown rice for white folks and white rice for the brown people.

[callous taoboy]

28. Enter *: "I get no kick from cocaine......"

[krkaufman]

23. The risk, I would think, is that appointing someone would be an admission

... that their existing structure and personal are inadequate -- and that they WERE NOT prepared for a disaster.

[cyr330]

25. You mean Uncle Tom?

Uncle Tom will do anything GWB asks him to do-- including lying about WMD and getting us into a war for nothing that is killing a bunch of innocent Iraqis and young American men and women. He's a revolting excuse of a human being. He'll grovel at *'s feet just begging for * to shit on his face. Nothing that he does would surprise me in the least.

[Tiggeroshii]

26. He'll turn them down.

No doubt... I don't understand how he can even respect those guys himself. But maybe he'll feel sorry. If he does, I probably would compe up with possibly even less respect for him than I already do.

[Malikshah]

30. And the first person that even attempts to praise that lying sack

of excrement....

He should be put in prison with the rest of the regime for the lies he told, the 100,000+ deaths he's caused.

[bushcrab]

31. stinkin' Colon Pow

"a chance to receive a hero's welcome on the world stage". Yeah, right. His reputation will never recover. His credibility as a strong general who leads has disintegrated into crumbs of shit.

[daleo]

32. If Powell rides to Bush's rescue this time

Well, it would hardly result in a hero's welcome on the world stage, or any other stage for that matter. Well, perhaps the stage that the Theater of the Absurd is played out on.