Please help commemorate Colin Powell's UN "Day of Shame" anniversary

[lwcon]

http://dayofshame.blogspot.com/

Please K&R, and share your own recollections and analyses of that fateful day, when the administration and the media officially parted ways with the reality-based community.

[ThomWV]

1. It was almost as disgraceful a day as that of Reagan's election.

[Peace Patriot]

7. Oh, boy, that's a hard choice--THE most disgraceful day in the last 28 years

of Puke lies, thievery, treason, and unspeakable atrocities.

For instance, the slaughter of 200,000 Mayan villagers in Guatemala--death squads funded, trained by the U.S.A. (Reagan again).

Long list, difficult choices.

Then there are political crimes tantamount to treason: passage (with half the Dems in the House and virtually all in the Senate voting FOR) the "Help America Vote (for Bush) Act" Oct. '02--$3.9 billion e-voting boondoggle, to spread 'TRADE SECRET' vote counting machines all over the land.

Unnoticed crimes: The disappearance of Chandra Levy, 5/1/01, on the same day, and during the same hours, that her boyfriend ("Blue Dog" Dem Gary Condit) was meeting with Dick Cheney. Two days later, 5/3/01, Condit votes for Bush-Cheney's first tax cut for the rich--one of only 10 Dem votes for it, in a very close and controversial vote. The behavior of the corpo/fascist 'news' monopolies around that meeting angers me to this day. (I smelled a rat with that one; still do.) Her bones found a year later, in Rock Creek Park, after 9/11, so nobody noticed or cared.

Bush Jr. speech at West Point declaring his "doctrine" of pre-emptive war. Can't remember the exact date (late '02), but I do remember my jaw dropping, and being AMAZED by the lack of reaction in Congress (which was busily preparing to turn our voting system over to far rightwing corporations to be run on 'TRADE SECRET' code).

I detest the CIA, like every red-blooded American should, but I have to say that the outing of Valerie Plame, on 7/14/03--head of the WMD counter-proliferation project, twenty years in development, putting all of Plame's agents/contacts around the world at risk of death, and the lack of consequences for that act of treason also left me jaw-dropped. Murder of David Kelly, three days later, 7/17/03--an explosive and possibly related mystery--was also disgraceful. The Brits killing one of their own.

"Shock and Awe"--that was memorable. 100,000 innocent people slaughtered in one week, to get their oil.

As a matter of fact, the last 28 years have been one, long, relentless, unmerciful, mind-boggling disgrace.

[lwcon]

8. You sound so partisan!

Is that allowed anymore?

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

2. I can't really contribute to the conversation,

but I'll commemorate the day by terrorizing my neighbors with a test tube filled with white powder.

[terisan]

3. Colin Powell the Opportunist, knowingly lying the US into war at behest of bush/Cheney.

Total Disgrace.

Should be a public anti-holiday. We go to our non-jobs wearing grey armbands to signify the present greyness of our lives and memorialize all those killed thanks to Powell's self-serving theatrics.

Powell needed to have his career ended when it was discovered he had covered up the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam to help his military career.

[lwcon]

4. Precisely n/t

[Captain Hilts]

5. Why so many here welcome his discussions with Obama I do not know. And he got LOUD applause...

when he appeared on the jumbotron at the inaugeration.

[lwcon]

6. An excellent question

See these for more about Powell's unwarranted reputation:

http://dayofshame.blogspot.com/2009/02/powell-creedence-revival.html
http://consortiumnews.com/2007/112807a.html
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1344