Now Powell Tells Us (Nation)

[katty]

TruthDig | posted April 11, 2006 (web only)
Now Powell Tells Us
Robert Scheer

(my sentiments exactly)

more: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060424/scheer0411
THE NATION
Now Powell Tells Us
Robert Scheer is editor of TruthDig, where this essay originally was published.

The President played the scoundrel--even the best of his minions went along with the lies--and when a former ambassador dared to tell the truth, the White House initiated what Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald calls "a plan to discredit, punish or seek revenge against Mr. Wilson." That is the important story line.

If not for the whistleblower, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, President Bush's falsehoods about the Iraq nuclear threat likely would never have been exposed.

On Monday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told me that he and his department's top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the President followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making the claim. Now he tells us.

[marmar]

1. Amen...

Sorry, Colin. There's no restoring your wrecked rep now. You should have envisioned all this before you walked into the U.N. with all those silly diagrams. It's going to be on your conscience for the rest of your life, no matter how you try to escape it.
And Sandra Day O'Connor, the same applies to you, for a different but equally tragic event.

[KC21304]

4. I couldn't have said it better myself.

Cowardly Colin could have, should have, spoken up. Even now he is protecting Bush.

[goclark]

2. Love Sheer ~ the LA TIMES got rid

of him because he always told the TRUTH!

[katty]

8. yeah, i stopped my subscription

[skypilot]

3. There were actually a couple reports...

...about Powell seeing the "intelligence" that the administration wanted him to present to the Security Council and throwing it across the room shouting, "This is bullshit!!" It was one of those stories that just sunk like a stone. Of course, the idiot went before the SC with the "bullshit" anyway.

[AndyA]

5. What Powell has done is treasonous to the people of the United States.

He kept his mouth shut, and serviced George Bush instead of fulfilling is obligation and duty to the Constitution.

He is a traitor, plain and simple. Shame on him.

[FiveGoodMen]

10. Amen.

He abused his credibility with the American people and enabled * to start the war.

He belongs in the Hague.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. The honorable thing to do would have been to resign and then

speak out to try and prevent an unnecessary and dishonorable war. But Colon isn't an honorable man, he's a Republican. So he stayed on and allowed over 2,300 Americans to be killed and over 17,000 to be injured, dismembered, brain damaged and maimed in every way imaginable. He kept his silence like a good soldier and innocent Iraqi's have paid a bloody price. His loyalty to the President and GOP only cost the tax payers of this country half a trillion dollars and counting.

[FiveGoodMen]

11. The honorable thing -- now -- would involve a confession and a pistol.

[winston61]

12. Amen to that

What a soulless shit heel.

[madmom]

7. If we remember correctly powell was also involved in the Iran contra

cover up (and got a pardon).So I can't quite figure out why so many people thought he was/is a good guy.

[katty]

9. Easy to be a johnny-come-lately patriot...now that their ship is sinking

[EVDebs]

13. Be sure to watch Col. Wilkerson on CSpan at 12:45 EST today !

Speech before Middle East Institute, he says more scandals are coming and that Rummy and Cheney are behind the fiascoes...Must see TV ! Ultimately, the buck stops at Bush. They can't get around that no matter how they wiggle.

[Post]

14. WH wants WaPo to Apologize

Those trailers? Not for bio-logical WMD? Scotty's pissed at the Post
http://postanapology.blogspot.com/2006/04/apology-wars-wh-and-wapo.html#links