Trust Powell? Better Not.

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2003/020603a.html

February 6, 2003


The U.S. news media promoted two "themes" about Secretary of State Colin Powell's trip to the United Nations where he buttressed George W. Bush’s case for war with Iraq by presenting satellite photographs of trucks outside buildings and snippets of intercepted conversations.

While the “evidence” on its face didn’t seem to prove much of anything, the media's first "theme" was that Powell is a trustworthy man of principle, a straight talker who wouldn't be part of some cheap propaganda ploy. The second "theme" was that Powell’s appearance before the United Nations was a kind of sequel to Adlai Stevenson’s convincing case that Soviet missiles had been installed in Cuba in 1962.

But both themes – Powell’s trustworthiness and the Cuban missile precedent – may be misleading, as articles below from the Consortiumnews.com Archives will demonstrate.

Powell’s press clippings aside, his real history is one of consistent political opportunism. For the full picture, see the series, “Behind Colin Powell’s Legend” or read the excerpt below that recounts how Powell advanced his political standing with the first Bush administration at the expense of the U.S. field commanders during the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

more......................lots more...........

[pansypoo53219]

1. have not trusted Colon Bowell

since he was instrumental in letting Sadaam stay after GW1.

[dfong63]

2. update:

this was posted in another thread - powell's un speech fact-checked. (remember how powell made such a big deal out of the "rigorous" fact-checking that he did before the speech?)

powell's battle cry fails test of time

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. Remember the massacre of Vietnamese civilians in My Lai in Vietnam?...

Powell was the Army's cover-up guy.

Everyone knew that the Lt. didn't order the killings all by himself...the orders came from pretty far up the chain of command.

Powell was the guy the Army always assigned to the tough cases because he had a knack for pulling their chestnuts out of roaring blazes.

[cliss]

4. OH pansy, laughing....

No one should be misled by Colin "Colon" Powell. He is every bit as crass and conniving as the rest of them.

I remember reading the article about Harry Belafonte when he chastised Colin for "cozying up with the "Massa" so he could live in his house with him". Boy, talk about sticking in the knife and twirling it.

There was another article about Hans Blix. They were interviewing Hans about the Niger uranium incident. He mentioned that he had personally asked Colin about that. (can't quote here, I'm paraphrasing). He said he looked straight at Colin and asked if he wasn't aware that the whole affair was a flagrant fake. "Well, if that's that, that's that" was his reply.

I take it to mean that he knew the whole time that the letter was a fake. Which means that they probably all knew it was a fake.

I've written several posts about flagrant lying and what it does to you. Colin Powell is another one. He lies constantly, and hopes that he can get away with it.

When people spend entire days doing this, it turns them into short-timers, because they can't expect to build solid careers on this kind of behavior. They become like penny-ante pawn shop brokers, demoted to just praying that they can make it through the day without any of their words coming back to haunt them, exploding in their faces like a hand grenade.

A SHITTY WAY TO LIVE.

[beanball]

5. Bush's houseboy

as the sec.of state,just as bad as shrub pretending to be president.