The Weapons were in Rush's Medicne Cabinet, Honest
Colin Powell (R-Formerly respectable guy) has begun to backpedal from the official 1600 Crew line about the WMD in Iraq. Not so fast, Mr. Gen Powell sir. If you have been carrying the water of known liars, cheats and thieves isn't it about time to regain some honor before history relegates you to the list of "mighta-beens"?
The material I will present to you comes from a variety of sources. Some are U.S. sources. And some are those of other countries. Some of the sources are technical, such as intercepted telephone conversations and photos taken by satellites. Other sources are people who have risked their lives to let the world know what Saddam Hussein is really up to.
I cannot tell you everything that we know. But what I can share with you, when combined with what all of us have learned over the years, is deeply troubling. What you will see is an accumulation of facts and disturbing patterns of behavior. The facts on Iraqis' behavior--Iraq's behavior demonstrate that Saddam Hussein and his regime have made no effort--no effort--to disarm as required by the international community. Indeed, the facts and Iraq's behavior show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction.
Well, I guess that you could not tell them "everything you know", because there was nothing to tell.
Secretary of State Colin Powell held out the possibility Saturday that prewar Iraq may not have possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Powell was asked about comments last week by David Kay, the outgoing leader of a U.S. weapons search team in Iraq, that he did not believe Iraq had large quantities of chemical or biological weapons.
That's a lot differnet tune than was sung last year. I guess that as long as Powell toes the party line, and keeps up the appearance of being infalliable, he gets all the perks of a 1600 Crew loyalist and his fat kid gets to keep his job.
Colin Powell, a man who traded an honorable life to become a shit stain. I really thought more of him than that. Too many years inside the Beltway, I guess.
posted by Jo Fish on 01.25.04 at 12:18 AM
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do the decent thing colon and comit sepuku.
posted by: tim on 01.25.04 at 12:08 PM [permalink]
Colin Powell has, IMHO, forever forfeited any right to being considered an honorable man. Instead of carrying the case for the invasion to the UN he should have resigned in protest. The fact that he didn't means that he shall be the "Dishonorable Colin Powell" in my mind for as long as I live. And I can't think of anything he can do, even commit seppuku, that will ever permit him to regain any right to be called an honorable man.
Back when Powell was being touted as a possible GOP presidential nominee, there was something about him that made me extremely nervous. I'm glad to see my instincts were on target.
It's amazingly bad when your record on credibility stacks up poorly against Saddam's.
So, Gordon the Overcompensating, lying to the american people and the UN is "the right thing"? Maybe on planet Freep, but here on earth being complicit in sending the US military on a snipe hunt is pretty damned dishonorable.
posted by: Satan luvvs Repugs on 01.26.04 at 09:51 AM [permalink]
Powell's rep inside the Army was that of a political general -- not necessarily a judgment that he was incompetent, but rather an acknowledgement that he was being groomed for bigger and better things.
In a harbinger of things to come, in the late 60's, Powell, then a major in the Americal Division in Vietnam, was one of the officers involved in that Division's "investigation" of the My Lai massacre (Calley had been a plt. leader in the Americal), an investigation which was largely (and correctly) recognized to be a cover - up of what had occurred.
By the time Calley was being court-martialed and (a few, not many) potentially - embarrassing questions were being asked about the so-called "investigation", Powell had moved on (and may have been a White House Fellow) by then.
What's past is indeed prologue.
posted by: fbg46 on 01.26.04 at 12:17 PM [permalink]
How has he not been connected closer to Ollie North as well? Both got their "start" there in that "investigation".
posted by: Mr.Murder on 01.28.04 at 04:53 AM [permalink]
Fuck all of you with something bad to say about Colin Powell...I hope to God he saves this country from Hillary Clinton in 2008...
posted by: dfjsldfjs on 03.24.04 at 03:46 PM [permalink]
