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A Special Place in Hell
The Ameriucan Spectator ^ | Septembe 18, 2006 | Jeff Babbin

Posted on 09/18/2006 4:33:24 AM PDT by libstripper

Greater self-love hath no man than to sacrifice a friend's life for his own. Our grateful nation awards the Medal of Honor to those few whose valor in combat is above and beyond the call of duty. But what is the polar opposite of the Medal? It is essential we decide, because Richard Armitage -- former Deputy Secretary of State -- has earned it for his uncommon treachery, beneath and beyond the call of knavery.

Begin with the fact that Armitage -- and his boss, Colin Powell -- were always outsiders. Powell, by his own discomfort with Bush's inner circle, was not part of it. But both were high-ranking members of the administration and owed it political loyalty.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: armitage; bushlied; libby; plamebroiled; powell; wot
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To: libstripper

BTTT


21 posted on 09/18/2006 7:03:12 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: libstripper

They smile in your face...


22 posted on 09/18/2006 7:07:01 PM PDT by firewalk
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To: libstripper

Counter-MSM bump.


23 posted on 09/18/2006 7:07:12 PM PDT by defenderSD (Just when you think it's never going to happen, that's when it happens.)
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To: MikefromOhio
Heh Mike..........What Powell and Armitage has done is the same thing as standing in the crowd and watching innocent men marched to the gallows and continue with their silence while one man has the noose placed around his neck and the executioner places his hand on the lever.

To me that is treason. Maybe not to you. Would you like to be looking at spending 30 years in prison like Libby when the investigation should not have occurred? I do not think so. If you don't like what we write, do not read FR. By the way Mike, give me a break.
24 posted on 09/18/2006 7:25:17 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: jrooney

It's not treason.

People use that word so much now that the word has lost it's meaning.

What they did was absolutely despicable, but it's not treason.


25 posted on 09/18/2006 7:26:43 PM PDT by MikefromOhio ("...America has confronted evil before, and we have defeated it...")
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To: jrooney
If you don't like what we write, do not read FR

What? Do you have a mouse in your pocket or something? Speak for yourself and no breaks will be forthcoming.
26 posted on 09/18/2006 7:27:25 PM PDT by MikefromOhio ("...America has confronted evil before, and we have defeated it...")
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To: MikefromOhio

You commented on my post. I commented back. Got it.


27 posted on 09/18/2006 7:28:34 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: jrooney

Ditto to everything you posted....Armitage is Powell's little toady...they are both to blame for this fiasco!


28 posted on 09/18/2006 7:29:12 PM PDT by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero..............)
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To: jrooney
You commented on my post. I commented back. Got it.

LOL!! That made about as much sense as your original rant about treason....want to try again?
29 posted on 09/18/2006 7:29:28 PM PDT by MikefromOhio ("...America has confronted evil before, and we have defeated it...")
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To: MikefromOhio

Heh Mike, bug off because I have not ime for anyone that tries to water down what Armitage and Powell have done.


30 posted on 09/18/2006 7:31:05 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: jrooney
Heh Mike, bug off because I have not ime for anyone that tries to water down what Armitage and Powell have done.

LOL!! Hey jrooney, bug off because I want to save the meaning and impact of the word treason for those who truly deserve it, not just those you disagree with.
31 posted on 09/18/2006 7:32:07 PM PDT by MikefromOhio ("...America has confronted evil before, and we have defeated it...")
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To: MikefromOhio

I meant "time" and "has" done.


32 posted on 09/18/2006 7:32:07 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: jrooney

too late....


33 posted on 09/18/2006 7:32:18 PM PDT by MikefromOhio ("...America has confronted evil before, and we have defeated it...")
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To: MikefromOhio

Okay Mike, you are the smartest one here. You know all and we should all come to for advice. I will see on the threads. No matter what you write in the future or any positive or negative impact you have here on FR will not matter to me. I have formed my opinion of you already and from where I sit, it is not pretty.


34 posted on 09/18/2006 7:36:58 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: libstripper
Powell was always a very political general - you don't often make CJCS if you aren't - but this particular sequence of events is so patently disgraceful that I can't help hoping, even now, that we don't know all the particulars. But the point was always strictly political, and how they've howled over the three years hence!

So what's in it for Powell? A Vice-Presidential nomination that he could already have had? One under a Democratic president? One under Hillary?

This is all mere speculation, but the utter dishonor of his silence in the matter between the time of the accusation and the time of the convening of the investigation is anything but.

35 posted on 09/18/2006 7:38:39 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: jrooney
Okay Mike, you are the smartest one here.

In this conversation...maybe....YES I'm joking.....

You know all and we should all come to for advice. I will see on the threads.

It's about time you realized it too....LOL

No matter what you write in the future or any positive or negative impact you have here on FR will not matter to me.

And I care? Oh wait My GIVE A DAMN is broken....

I have formed my opinion of you already and from where I sit, it is not pretty.

Oh I care about what some idiot on an internet forum thinks of me? HARDLY.
36 posted on 09/18/2006 7:44:12 PM PDT by MikefromOhio ("...America has confronted evil before, and we have defeated it...")
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To: MikefromOhio

Calling someone an idiot is not very nice. Especially someon you do not know. Okay keyboard tough guy. I bet you are the type of person that can throw insults all day when you hide behind a computer but would never have the courage to do it in person. Typical keyboard tough guy.


37 posted on 09/18/2006 7:48:55 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: jrooney
Calling someone an idiot is not very nice. Especially someon you do not know. Okay keyboard tough guy. I bet you are the type of person that can throw insults all day when you hide behind a computer but would never have the courage to do it in person. Typical keyboard tough guy.

Nah I've only got the courage to go to Iraq voluntarily because I believe in the mission. BTW, you are the one ASSuming that I give a crap what you think or what your opinion of me is. Just in case you were wondering, I don't have an opinion of you, because I don't form opinions for irrelevant things, and that includes PEOPLE.
38 posted on 09/18/2006 7:52:05 PM PDT by MikefromOhio ("...America has confronted evil before, and we have defeated it...")
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To: MikefromOhio

Okay little man.


39 posted on 09/18/2006 7:53:02 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: jrooney
Okay little man.

Got anymore witty comebacks? That was hilarious LOL
40 posted on 09/18/2006 7:56:13 PM PDT by MikefromOhio ("...America has confronted evil before, and we have defeated it...")
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