Colin Powell sinks to new low

[lovuian]

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Colin Powell is one of the most decent men in America. He is well regarded internationally and has a formidable record with the U.S. military, and in subsequent years as a politician.

On this news site we have lauded him on a number of occasions. The Bush administration may never have been elected in 2000, or re-elected in 2004, without Powell. He provided an ingredient most commonly described as integrity.

The one major blot on his reputation, as he admitted himself this past week, was a speech he made to the United Nations Security Council on February 5 2003 when he effectively made a case for war with Iraq. Little-reported or understood was the fact that the audience he supposedly targeted did not buy his delivery. The United Nations, that is the member nations of the world, rejected his argument. Not a single country was won over. The real target of his speech however bought it, hook, line, and sinker. While the rest of the world, other than for Britain and Australia, disbelieved Powell, the majority of Americans took their Secretary of State at his word. Bush had a mandate to continue his march to war, with or without the UN, with the American people on his side.
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He got wrapped up in the immense power!!!

[ck4829]

1. This is how I'll always remember Mr. Powell

[samdogmom]

2. Good one! How can you top this photo?

It really does emphasize what a joke he turned out to be!

[lovuian]

4. LOL!!! Thanks for that pic!!!

He took the fall for Bush thats the sad part!!!

[BlueJac]

3. A disgrace

[La Coliniere]

6. I'll second that!

And third it, and fourth it, and fifth it, and..........

[Dem Agog]

5. I will never forgive Powell...

Unlike *, unlike Condi, unlike Dick and Donny... I once thought Powell was a good man with a soul.

He sold out to the devil and as far as I'm concerned, he's been condemned to be a joke, the sellout, the black marionette for "Compassionate Conservatism"...

Those with no souls were irredeemable to begin with. Those who chose to kill their own souls are even more dead in the end.

[BiggJawn]

7. THIS is how I'll remember Colon Bowell....

[tabasco]

10. Me too. A disgrace to the Nation, the Army, and the officer corps.

For his role in starting the Iraq war, he should be prosecuted and imprisoned.

[UTUSN]

8. "ONE major blot"? - His Whole Career Is a Series of BLOTS n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Too little, too late. Like McNamara apologizing for Vietnam & Cambodia

decades too late.