Colin Powell - Express your thoughts on the man

[The Sushi Bandit]

Poll question: Colin Powell - Express your thoughts on the man

So he was the face at the UN of Bushco in the opening throws of the "War on Terror" and the Iraq invasion.

So after reflection... what do you think about him?

[mmonk]

1. My vote is registered.

[babylonsister]

2. #2 and #3 need to be combined imo. nt

[Ignacio Upton]

3. I think that he was duped

While I don't like him, I don't think that he would have been allowed to know everything, because he's generally not as hawkish or as NeoCon-friendly as Cheney and Rumsfeld. Still, I wish that he had questioned what he was being given. But with people like Bolton in the State Deparment....I do not know.

[longship]

4. Ennervated wimp.

Spineless. Milk-toast. Unprincipled. Ideologue. Partisan. Warmonger.

Unpatriotically puts partisanship ahead of country.

But above all, he's a ennervated wimp.

[DURHAM D]

6. I refer to him as the brown sponge. eom

[longship]

11. "Sponge" is good.

Has no backbone, etc. And pretty much all sponges are brown.

[DURHAM D]

12. Actually - M. Albright referred to him as being a sponge.

Can't remember if it was in her book or if I heard her say it in person while speaking to a small group.

[The Sushi Bandit]

20. natural or synthetic?

[stillcool]

5. I'm wondering how he got the 'squeaky clean' image...

to start with. Not that family habits are conclusive or anything but if he's like his brother...?

[mmonk]

7. He's a yes man for the wrong people.

[IndianaGreen]

8. He was Bush's von Ribbentropp

Joachim von Ribbentropp was Hitler's foreign minister. He was sentenced to death by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.

[agates]

9. Creepy

butt-licking suck-up order-taker war-enabler. Is that concise enough?

He lied and knew it at the time, in my opinion.

[incapsulated]

10. He knew damn well and rationalized his compliance

He has said as much himself. That they were all fucking nuts, and that he was all nervous to go to the UN with what he knew was cooked up intel, which is why he had them edit out all the obvious bullshit to give him cover.

He is a fucking lapdog of the worst sort. He used the respect he had in the world community to sell a pack of lies to people who trusted him. I will never forgive him for it.

[The Sushi Bandit]

13. Anyone think they had something on him?

some deep dark secret!

[incapsulated]

14. No.

He's made a career of being the Bush Family lapdog. When it got so bad it was damaging his reputation he bailed.

[unkachuck]

15. when lies come out....

....of your mouth, you're a liar....when you sit prepared as Secretary of State in front of millions of people speaking, you should be aware of what's coming out of your mouth....

....I'm sorry, a man in his position not completely aware of what he's saying is hard to believe....he's a liar....

[opihimoimoi]

16. He damn well knew all along...a POS he is

[Skittles]

17. a f***ing bush whore

he is garbage

[FrenchieCat]

18. He lied and people died. End of story!

Who cares why? :shrug:

[The Sushi Bandit]

19. I go for the loyalty plea

its his military training... when in doubt, be loyal to your commander

[underpants]

21. Mai Lai and the War in Iraq

In between he had a great military career (some of which was probably attributtal to the investigation/coverup) and if he had wanted it he could have been President in 2000. At least the Republicans would have had a hard time coming up with a reason not to nominate him.

But you know what-just like W- what matters in the end are results and the result of his career is that he help lie us into a war. If he is everything they say he is he should have known better.

[GreenArrow]

22. he is without Honor

.

[KansDem]

23. He's a Bush stooge...

Nothing more, nothing less.

[Odin2005]

24. I think he is absolutly POed at the Neocons for duping him...

...but he keeps his mouth shut because he is afraid of being in an "accedental" plane crash.

[MrSlayer]

25. He knew he was lying.

And whether or not he argued against it beforehand matters not. He deliberately and willfully lied for these bastards.

[HeatherDawn]

26. Powell's got blood on his hands that will never wash off

If Powell wasn't in on it and really was misled by the Bushies he can open his mouth ANYTIME and try and wipe some of the blood off his hands, but instead he has chosen to make some big bucks in the private sector and I am sure he has investments making him butt-loads of additional cash from war investments.

Powell is probably one of the only people who could have made a difference by speaking out loudly and forcefully against the administration and he has chosen to keep his mouth shut and make some money like a true Republican.....

[The Sushi Bandit]

28. Is powels son in the admin now??

[Arkham House]

27. Colin Who...?