TORTURE?- "SO WHAT": Colin Powell

[kpete]

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Jonathan Schwarz:
Colin Powell Still World’s Biggest Asshole

As someone who has picked meticulously through Colin Powell’s lies during his UN address, and is also familiar with the grim history of his climb to power, I didn’t think Powell had any tricks left in his Giant Bag of Sleaze that would surprise me.

Oh, how wrong I was!

Check out this amazing exchange yesterday between Sam Husseini and Powell. As you’ll see, Powell denies knowing anything whatsoever about the torture of Ibn al-Libi, which elicited one of Powell’s claims in his UN address about connections between Iraq and al-Qaeda, and thus has generated screaming international headlines for several years:

Sam Husseini: General, can you talk about the al-Libi case and the link between torture and the production of tortured evidence for war?

Colin Powell: I don’t have any details on the al-Libi case.

SH: Can you tell us when you learned that some of the evidence that you used in front of the UN was based on torture? When did you learn that?

CP: I don’t know that. I don’t know what information you’re referring to. So I can’t answer.

SH: Your chief of staff, Wilkerson, has written about this.

CP: So what? (inaudible)

SH: So you’d think you’d know about it.

CP: The information I presented to the UN was vetted by the CIA. Every word came from the CIA and they stood behind all that information. I don’t know that any of them believe that torture was involved. I don’t know that in fact. A lot of speculation, particularly by people who never attended any of these meetings, but I’m not aware of it.

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[LynnTheDem]

1. Powell didn't know nuthin' about Mai Lai, either.

It's amazing how much Powell doesn't know.

Of course he's "still a republican"; MFing war criminal.

[blm]

3. He's being set up by the Bushfascists to stay in the loop with the Dems....typical.

Powell's been used for decades to play the left - he's much more useful in the long run for his fascist bosses when he does that. Powell MADE SURE Bush2 got into the WH with Cheney. He didn't fall off the turnip truck in 2000.

[thereismore]

2. Misleading title. Powell still complicit. nt

[greiner3]

4. So a caption would be;

powell says nothing new!

[bahrbearian]

5. The old "I don't recall" bullshit.

[AllTooEasy]

6. Ah Come On!!!

Let's not get stupid here! He replied "So What?!" to "Your chief of staff, Wilkerson, has written about this." not "Hey Colin, we tortured people!". Powell blew off the relevance of the article being written by his cheif of staff, not the crime.

The right loves to take things out of context. Let's try not to stoop to their level.

BTW, Colin is not innocent. His UN presentation was the most pathetic, unconvincing presentation ever! Blood of 5,000+ soldiers are on his hands.