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Colin Powell: Planning for an Exit
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| 9/1/02
| MASSIMO CALABRESI
Posted on 09/01/2002 5:55:31 AM PDT by Brian Mosely
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To: Brian Mosely
Why has the US ignored the terrorist-spawning, terrorist supporting,
WMD bankrolling, Saudis who have --since their attacks against the US on 911--
used telethons to fund even more murderous attacks on Western democracies.
Saudi Minister: "Constantinople."
To: Brian Mosely
In war time, we need more than a "reluctant general" in there. Powell has shown himself to be a wuss, both during Desert Storm (he wouldn't go after Saddam), and in the current "war on terror."
Don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out!
To: Diogenesis
Why don't you tell us?
To: Brian Mosely
I'll bet a nickel his son goes first.
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:04:48 AM PDT
by
AzJP
To: Brian Mosely
Door, ass.
To: Brian Mosely
Good. Colin Powell is a blind naivette. He has no moral clarity. He cannot call evil what it is, and he cannot call an enemy an enemy.
To: Brian Mosely
I love how all these stories have quotes from unnamed sources. It would be nice if the media reported "real" news, rather than all this gossip they helped to create. And all these stories referring to Powell as the moderate dove (i.e. good guy) and Cheney and Rumsfeld as the hard-line hawks (i.e. bad guys) is getting old. If these guys were such "hawks", just itching for war, would not Iraq be a parking lot right now?
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:14:34 AM PDT
by
ejdrapes
To: Brian Mosely
Okay, so now this looks like it pushes Hillary back into the second spot for the Dem' nomination for president. The question now is, will the Hildebeast and Joe (the Hypocrite) Lieberman have a cat fight for the VP nomination?
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:17:04 AM PDT
by
scouse
To: Brian Mosely
CNN is reporting via Reuters that Powell thinks that Iraq allow inspectors in as a "first step." All the man needs is a bowler and an umbrella to do an imitation of Neville Chamberlain.
LONDON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday that Washington wanted the "first step" toward solving the Iraq crisis to be the return of weapons inspectors to assess President Saddam Hussein's arms capability. http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1396163
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:17:05 AM PDT
by
Catspaw
To: Brian Mosely
The socialist media has been trying to drive a wedge between Colin Powell and the rest of the Bush Administration ever since they came to town. The commies can't stand the fact that Powell, an American of Jamaican decent, is in more than a token position. Powell knows how to play the Washington game. He didn't get to be chairman of the JCS because he's a nice guy. Don't forget he graduated from CCNY which was known as the poor man's Harvard before the socialists took it down.
Powell has the worst job in Washington; dealing with the striped pants crowd that wander off the reservation on a regular basis. Also, don't forget that the State Department is supposed to resolve disputes without throwing punches
To: Brian Mosely
A political general who was chosen as a politically correct move.
He is a great disappointment.
To: Brian Mosely
The loss of his moderating voice would embolden the hard-liners and hurt the partys efforts to broaden its base.The defeat of terrorism requires the toughest resolve within our leaders. We cannot defeat terrorism with appeasers like Colin Powell. Terrorists must be killed. They take advantage of appeasement and see it as weakness. Terrorists retreat only from flying bullets and the gallows. We need tough people to lead the effort to destroy these barbarians. Colin Powell is not one of that kind.
To: CanadianFella
Powell has served the purpose he was intended for. To give credibility to the diversity in the administration and the moderation(socialism) in favor in the State Department. He is basically to the far left of most military men. He has always filled up an empty suit.
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:26:05 AM PDT
by
meenie
To: Catspaw
"CNN is reporting via Reuters that Powell thinks that Iraq allow inspectors in as a "first step.""
Where were all these people -- Powell included -- back in 98 when Saddam Hussein kicked the inspectors out of Iraq? Seems to me the world reaction was "Oh, well..." Obviously, these whiners' goals are to pacify world opinion while they do NOTHING.
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:26:29 AM PDT
by
Tricorn
To: Born to be Wild
In war time, we need more than a "reluctant general" in there. Powell has shown himself to be a wuss, both during Desert Storm (he wouldn't go after Saddam), and in the current "war on terror." Don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out!
Hey, Colonel, sir, before responding any further read this:
Powell has been, throughout his career, a proponent of a strong national defense, an extensive military presence overseas and, more generally, a unique American role in the world. He supported the Star Wars program in the 1980s and resisted relaxing the ban on gays in the military in the 1990s. His spectacular military career took him steadily from officers training at City College of New York to four-star general. Yet as he readily acknowledges, most of the key steps in his separate, parallel rise through Washington's foreign policy establishment were in Republican administrations. He was introduced to future Republican leaders as a White House fellow under Richard Nixon, became national security adviser under Reagan and was named chairman of the Joint Chiefs under George H.W. Bush.
And this:
Yet over the years, the right wing has displayed some ambivalence about Powell. Frank Gaffney, a former Reagan administration official whose staunch pro-defense views put him at the far right of the political spectrum, recalls ruefully what happened when he agreed to argue against Powell's presidential candidacy on a 1995 television talk show about Powell's record on defense and foreign policy issues. Gaffney forgot to ask who would be on the pro-Powell side of the debate. When he arrived at the studio the next morning, he discovered his mentor, former boss and fellow hawk Richard Perle, glowering at him; Perle was there to defend Powell's record on national security.
I've met General Powell and you cannot ask for a finer example of a man or American in this country. Read the rest of the article here
Regards.
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:27:47 AM PDT
by
SBeck
To: NoControllingLegalAuthority; meenie; All
Read post #16.
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:29:39 AM PDT
by
SBeck
To: Brian Mosely
If Powell steps down it will more likely be because he realized he can not control his employees and has been ineffectual as CEO of The State Department.
It is his department that has been unable to stop illegal visas do to self destructive PC policies. Powell has never understood the need for responsible intolerance accompanied with compassionate tolerance.
To: Brian Mosely
Affirmative Action cause and effect.
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:33:02 AM PDT
by
Stallone
To: Stallone
Pretty silly remark Rocky. Read post #16.
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posted on
09/01/2002 6:34:08 AM PDT
by
SBeck
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