Posted on 09/09/2005 2:48:40 PM PDT by rightalien
I have lost respect for Mr. Powell, no longer is he a man of stature.
Powell is a good man. ABC simply wants to make as big a deal out of this as possible. It's obvious from the tone of their article.
Colin Powell doesn't deserve stature, but he has it with many Americans. His comments are a very poor defense of the president and will hurt him. They're stupid comments, as we can usually expect from Powell. But they still hurt.
No, I disagree with you, Powell is not a good man. A good man wouldn't have said what he said yesterday and today concerning the war in Iraq and why we went there.
Does he recall the words "Yellow Cake"? I think he is a leftist.
He never was.
He was a token promoted along to look good. He's a stupid man. If it weren't for HIS color, he never would have been in a position of authority.
He's probably working on Alma right now to win her to the cause.
Well I gav ehim more credit than that.
His positions seems quite reasonable. The opening paragraph made it sound like he was directly opposing the administration on these issues. Instead, he is simply airing his own opinions:
(1)Mistakes were made both before and after Katrina hit at all levels of government
(2)Economics, rather than racism explains why mainly Blacks were affected most
(3)While Saddam apparently didn't have weapons of mass destruction, the administration was a victim of poor intelligence, not lying!
(4)Saddam should have been removed by force based on the U.N. resolutions in force; he's glad Saddam is gone
(5)Mistakes were made in Iraq
(6)Leaving Iraq before the job is done would be a mistake!
Gotta disagree. He is not a stupid man. Anyone who got handed a bunch of crap from Tenet and looked foolish as a result would be mad, too.
Agreed. The ABC article is written as though Powell has put on a hairshirt and is repenting working for the evil Bush Administration.
It bothers me he blows of Saddam and 9/11.
There was a relationship between Bin Laden and Iraq.
We know this. It goes back before Bush was even president. CNN and ABC reported on this. The links are often posted here. Saddam encouraged them to attack us.
Now we know that Atta may have met with Iraqis prior to 9-11 and that needs to be relooked at, hopefully the Able Danger issue will re-open these things.
This story is not finished yet. There is more to learn.
Somebody sounds bitter. ha!
I have contended that Powell really has always been a liberal in Republican clothing.
Now all of a sudden nobody likes Colen Powell? When he was sitting in front of the United Nations speaking lies that were givne to him everybody loved him. Times sure does change peoples opinions.
I believe that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction at, or near, the outset of the war. However, I also would have been embarrassed if I had made the speech he made to the United Nations. Some of that intelligence was truly "gray" when it was being presented as black and white. I prefer to handle the truth more carefully and apparently, so does he.
I think you are correct. I remember when he was appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by Bush Sr.
He was promoted over several hundred higher rated officers. Of course the same thing was true of Eisenhower in WWII (not to the joint chiefs position but as commander in Europe) so I guess there is precedent.
Powell seems to be a decent enough person but he never struck me as very competent. I do recall he made some plans for the original Desert Storm and Swartzhopf supposedly said they were really bad.
Read my synopsis of his views in the prior post. This guy wouldn't vote for Kerry.
I like the man. He is a good man. He did a good job. I just think that he is shying away and taking a safer stance after feeling that he put out "bad" information.
I would ask him about what material went to Syria before the war, we know things were moved there. What did those russian troops remove? He must know about these things, but probably figures its to fringe now to risk his reputation on.
You heard it here first.
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