BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE
Posted on 10/20/2008 6:43:05 AM PDT by shortstop
I talked with a retired Admiral yesterday. NEVER before have I seen him froth at the mouth and rant as he did yesterday. Speaking about Powell’s endorsement I will only quote this small part, “...that slimmy deserter, that son of a bitch...”
I get that this is not setting to well in some circles!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23963
The real Colin Powell
By Joseph Farah
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
I found it ironic that Secretary of State Colin Powell characterized Israel’s attack on the terrorist cell Hamas as “excessive,” “reprehensible,” “highly provocative” and “too aggressive.”
After all, the two men killed in the attack – Hamas leaders Jamal Mansour and Jamal Salim – have been responsible for the deaths of at least 80 Israelis and the wounding of more than 400 in suicide missions and attacks they orchestrated.
In my opinion, the United States ought to be congratulating Israel for the service to mankind, for the restraint showed and for the precision of an attack on a seven-story building that took out only the Hamas offices. Israel has every right to defend itself and its citizens from attack – just as every other nation in the world does.
And Colin Powell knows this. Yet, here’s what he said about the action: “This kind of response is too aggressive and it just serves to increase the level of tension and violence in the region.”
read rest of article, very informative.
What I cringed at the most in Powell's little speech was the item about two more conservative judges on the Supreme Court....which tells me Powell doesn't care much about what our forefathers intended....
I've been derided here and elsewhere for saying this but I've always believed that Powell was the ultimate Affirmative Action beneficiary.
With a Colinoscopy he could pull his own head out of his rear-end.
Answer that and you will have your answer as to who are racists and who are not. NO CONTEST!
LLS
Bush surrounded himself with world socialists thereby guaranteeing his demise.
Reagan chose people he knew and deeply trusted and charged them with the wherewithall to make tough decisions on their own.
Obama will surround himself with dyed-in-the-wool socialist terrorists and lackeys like Powell, having served his useful purpose, will be put out in the plantation fields to pick cotton.
What about the types that do not believe he did it because Obama is black?
Just one more feces piece from the cesspool of Liberalism.
And neither does his endorsement.
There is one, and only one, logical explanation beyond the race issue.
Colin Powell made the 2nd Iraq War necessary by convincing Bush 41 to bug out of Iraq in the 1st Iraq War before the job was done.
Now he wants to cement his legacy by ensuring there will be a 3rd Iraq War by doing the exact same thing before final victory is achieved in the 2nd Iraq War.
The U.S. may or may not be involved in the 3rd Iraq War. But it will cost the lives of tens of thousands of Iraqis and anyone else who may be involved.
But that's a small price to pay to ensure a legacy for Colin Powell, isn't it?
That would make him a stepnfetchit for Republicans, a backstabbing one at that.
Powell is the master of self-promotion and insincerity. Had it not been for him, perhaps we would have removed Sadam years earlier and not had to go back. He was not a good team player as Secretary of State and the idol worship bestowed upon him is unearned. Like Obama, Powell is not a descendant of slaves (he’s Caribbean) and to claim that race was not a major part of this is naive. He’s best at doing for Colin whatever is best for Colin.
Colin Powell endorsed Obama because he’s black.
Period. End of story.
I am very dissappointed in a man that I once considered a great leader. I don’t know his true reasons, but I agree that he has clearly abandoned his lifelong persuit of individual freedom and liberty.
That he would endorse a Marxist is very telling of either his shift to wanting to be taken care of by the government, as he ages or it is a shift based on race. Either way, it is very dissappointing.
good for treating “Irritable Powell Syndrome”
“I have lost any respect I had for Powell following his endorsement of Obama.”
I’ve not been a fan of Powell’s for a long time. This certainly put him in the “enemy of sanity” column for me.
powell’s reasoning for shafting the GOP are as convincing as scott mcclellan’s
Yes, Most of the time. But as Secretary of Defense Reagan chose Caspar Weinberger and Weinberger had the Liberal Frank Carlucci as his Deputy and Carlucci groomed Colin Powell like a protege. In 1981 it was a still youthful Colin Powell bouncing around the E-ring of the Pentagon.
Yes, he has claimed to be a Republican, but nothing he has ever said or done would even remotely suggest that he is a conservative. Just another RINO.
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