(Click image to enlarge)It was revealed today that prior to the Iraq war, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell spent two and a half hours trying in vain to convince President George W. Bush not to invade.
GOI: Two and a half hours??? That's merely the length of your average movie!! Powell only spent two and a half hours to try and convince the president not to go to war??? Don't knock yourself out there Colin. Holding that position you have a heavy responsibility to America, it's brave soldiers and the people of an entire other country for god's sake!!! If he really wanted to avoid this war he would have talked to Bush every. damn. day--and if that didn't work he should have resigned to speak out publicly.
I would have done everything in my power to stop that war if I was in that position. Two and a half hours is a sorry ass attempt to stop a war that you supposedly believe is wrong. You're going to be satisfied with trying for a couple of hours?? How could you live with yourself knowing that you barely did anything to stop the genocide that this war has caused. If you only give a couple of your hours to "try" and stop the war--you're not really trying.
Powell's downfall is his unflinching, blind loyalty to "the mission" regardless of it's merits. He acted like he was still a Sargent in the field who must take orders--instead his was the goddamn Secretary of State!!!
You're too late coming to the party Colin. It's hard to have respect for someone who supposedly saw the horrors of this war coming and only spent two damn hours trying to prevent it. We're not talking about discussing some minor political issue over a cafe latte--we're talking about a fuckin' war man!!!
Why are you telling us of this Colin?? Perhaps it is because you feel ashamed that you didn't do more and somehow try to rationalize that two hours is "trying." Whatever.
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5 comments:
I think we knew not long after that Powell had said to Bush that Iraq was "like at Pottery Barn, if you break it, you own it."
I think the point is that Powell got a solid block of the president's time to make his argument. 2 1/2 hours of a president's attention -- especially one so incurious as Bush -- is a chance to develop a complete case against war.
But, right, he has an army-guy's sense of unflagging duty and stayed with the administration for the entire first term, even as he was left out of the loop on policy.
Still, I think Powell has been a very able, stand-up guy. But, yes, he is ruined by his association with the Bush Administration, as have many others. I bet we'll see Bush's current Sec of State, Condi Rice, in a few years as a pathetic figure appearing on "Dancing with the Stars."
Everyone Geo. Bush touched will be left in ruins. They'll be no governors or senators coming that served in his administration. The next Republican Adminstration, whenever it comes, won't have any whiff of Geo. Bush. Bush with be a pariah the rest of his life, vanishing into pitiful obscurity.
Excellent rant! The hard thing to beleive is that Dumbya actually listened for that long.
Tom:
I do think that Powell is a good guy but was definitely the wrong guy for that position.
I believe that you're right in saying that the Bush legacy will taint those who embraced it for a long time to come.
Liberal:
Thanks. Yeah that is amazing that he could concentrate that long. Good one. :)
I like Colon Powell, and admire him for leaving the administration...eventually. And yet, when it counted, he knowingly lied to America to get the nation behind an illegal, unnecessary war that has killed over a hundred thousand people, gifted truckloads of cash to Big Oil and the Defense Industry, and further eroded our liberties and destroyed our reputation around the world. All in all, thumbs down Colin. You should have been with us (anti-war) instead of sitting on the fence.
“We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.”
- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Remarks to UN Security Council
2/5/2003
“There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more. And he has the ability to dispense these lethal poisons and diseases in ways that can cause massive death and destruction. If biological weapons seem too terrible to contemplate, chemical weapons are equally chilling.”
- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Addresses the U.N. Security Council
2/5/2003
“If Iraq had disarmed itself, gotten rid of its weapons of mass destruction over the past 12 years, or over the last several months since (UN Resolution) 1441 was enacted, we would not be facing the crisis that we now have before us…But the suggestion that we are doing this because we want to go to every country in the Middle East and rearrange all of its pieces is not correct.”
- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Interview with Radio France International
2/28/2003
“So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.”
- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Remarks to UN Security Council
3/7/2003
“I’m absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We’re just getting it just now.”
- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Remarks to Reporters
5/4/2003
“This wasn’t material I was making up, it came from the intelligence community.”
- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Press Briefing
6/2/2003
“I would put before you Exhibit A, the mobile biological labs that we have found. People are saying, ‘Well, are they truly mobile biological labs?’ Yes, they are. And the DCI, George Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence, stands behind that assessment.”
- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Fox News Interview
6/8/2003
“The biological weapons labs that we believe strongly are biological weapons labs, we didn’t find any biological weapons with those labs. But should that give us any comfort? Not at all. Those were labs that could produce biological weapons whenever Saddam Hussein might have wanted to have a biological weapons inventory.”
- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Associated Press Interview
6/12/2003
MS. BLOCK: There were no toxins found in those trailers. SECRETARY POWELL: Which could mean one of several things: one, they hadn’t been used yet to develop toxins; or, secondly, they had been sterilized so thoroughly that there is no residual left. It may well be that they hadn’t been used yet.
- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
All Things Considered, Interview
6/27/2003
Joe C:
I'm so disappointed in him. He had so much potential and wasted it all by backing this madman that we have in the Oval Office.
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