Kovic:"Powell is a detriment to democracy.. a danger to our Constitution"

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

Ron Kovic quote, "Born on the 4th of July" author,
Vietnam Veteran :

"Colin Powell is a detriment to democracy; he's a danger to our Constitution; he's a danger to our democracy."


December 17, 2000
Behind Colin Powell's Legend: Part One
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/121700a.html

[candy331]

1. And a

disgrace. I was a little disturbed when it was discussed him running for president and the news said he was not going to run because his wife was against it. Now I see why. He does not have leadeship qualities he is just a yes man. I really thought he was a man of principle, I truly respected him but what a joke! The sad part is the Repugs don't like him either so why does he stay?

[dfong63]

2. kovic's comments were insightful and prescient

when i heard his criticisms of Colin Powell for the first time, i thought they might be overblown. little did i know, how right the next few years would prove Kovic to be. Kovic saw the true Powell long before it was so clearly revealed in runup to the Iraq war.

[TeeYiYi]

3. kick

TYY :kick:

[sendero]

4. and his punkass son...

... is not much better.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Truer words were never spoken!

The man is a snake among snakes! Do a google search on 'Powell My Lai' sometime!

YES MAN!

<snip>

As an Army officer, Powell's superiors considered him a consummate "team player." They could count on Powell to haul their water despite any contradictory feelings he may have had. Powell's blind loyalty was demonstrated during a second tour in Vietnam (1968-1969), where as deputy assistant chief of staff for operations G-3 at Americal Division headquarters in Chu Lai, he was asked to handle a potentially embarrassing letter a young soldier had written to Gen. Creighton Abrams, commander of all U.S. forces in Vietnam.

The soldier had written about rumors of a massacre that Americal Division soldiers had committed in the hamlet of My Lai 4 in South Vietnam. Although he did not mention My Lai in the letter, the soldier complained that Americal soldiers were indiscriminately killing Vietnamese civilians. Such acts, the young soldier warned, "are carried on at entire unit levels and thereby acquire the aspect of sanctioned policy."

http://www.usvetdsp.com/story13.htm

See what the Army Buddies think of Powell!

[MarianJack]

6. I think that Ron Kovic is a true American Hero!

His book, "Born on the Fourth of July", and his speech at the 1976 Democratic Convention both moved me to tears. He is a great man! :bounce: