Colin Powell, A Master Butt Snorkeler [Updated]
By Larry Johnson on October 21, 2008 at 12:33 AM in Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Current Affairs
(bumped up by SusanUnPC)
Leave it to Pat Lang to thoroughly skewer the myth and legend of Colin Powell. Powell is a quintessential creature of Washington–smooth talking, handsome, low-key, and relentless in the task of butt-snorkeling. Powell did not achieve what achieved by challenging Presidents and senior commanders on matters of principle. Nope. He followed the parade, another way of saying going along with the crowd. Pat writes:
I watched this. I suppose that President Obama will find something for Colin Powell to do for the next few years, but that will be unfortunate.
Powell is someone who truly “blotted his copybook” as the Brits used to say. After a lifetime of service and achievement, Powell chose in the end to “drink the koolaid” that flowed in the bloodstream of the Bush/Cheney/neocon regime that has ruled the United States for the last eight years. He was Secretary of State at a time when his firm opposition, and ultimately his resignation would have crippled the onrushing utopian crusade for Westernization in Iraq.
He did not choose to follow that path. Instead, he chose to believe the corrupted judgments of an intelligence community leadership that betrayed the country and the armed forces by producing nonsensical estimates designed to create support for war among an ignorant and bellicose public that hungered for revenge aganst an enemy they could not even define.
Today, when he was asked by Brokaw about his role as perhaps the greatest enabler of the Iraq War decision, he took shelter behind the collection of garbage that was served up in 2002-2003 by George Tenet and company as justification for war.
For Shame! For Shame!
He should hide himself and hope that someday men will remember the good of him and not the worst. pl
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081019/pl_politico/14714
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell
PS Contrary to Brokaw, on MTP, it does not appear that Powell commanded an infantry battalion in the 101st Division in VN. Comment?
Once again Powell does the wrong thing at the wrong time. Should Obama be elected, the turd he will deliver as President will leave a legacy on par with that of George W. Bush. At least Powell will have the “distinction” of having supported both nitwits.
UPDATE–I did not hear Powell’s comments on Meet the Press yesterday, but I just saw the transcript. Powell is so disingenuous that one almost does not know whether to laugh or shriek in rage. Consider the following from Powell:
I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, “Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.”
Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim; he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian.
But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no, that’s not America.
Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president?
Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, “He’s a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists.” This is not the way we should be doing it in America.
The facts are that Obama has not “always been a Christian.” That is not true. Barack’s mother was at best an agnostic. She professed no faith. His step-father, Lolo Soetoro, was a muslim. Barack’s father was a muslim. Barack during his time as a child in Indonesia was a muslim. There is no evidence I have seen that Barack continued to practice Islam after moving back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. But the notion that Barack has been a life long practicing Christian is pure, unadulterated HORSE SHIT!
But it is not the matter of being a muslim that is so concerning. Barack’s long association with the likes Louis Farrakhan, a Black Muslim, is alarming. The Islam espoused by Farrakhan is not mainstream. Anything but. So yes, I have a problem with someone who pals around with the likes of Louis Farrakhan. People like that should not be President or work for a President. Very simple. That kind of anti-semitism cannot be tolerated.
Powell also tries to pretend the notion that Obama is “associated with a terrorist” is a hypothetical. Sorry. But established relationships with William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and Mike Klonsky, who either directly participated in terrorist attacks in the United States or supported groups who did, is no hypothetical. Obama has buddied up with terrorists and refuses to account for his actions.
But we should not be surprised. Colin Powell refused to listen to the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research objections to CIA efforts to cook the intel on Iraq. He ignored them and took a bogus case for war to the UN. So when it comes to the matter of the war in Iraq, judgment, and a Presidential endorsement, Powell is consistent–he is consistently wrong.
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