Posted on 02/21/2010 10:33:45 AM PST by lowbridge
From his first days in Washington, Powell spent the majority of his military service working as an aide to his mentors. He rose rapidly through the military ranks, carefully getting his “ticket punched” with the right assignments and making the right contacts. He became a thoroughbred Washington insider in a military uniform.
In 1977, during the Carter administration, Powell, now on the fast track, was made full colonel and senior military aide to Defense Secretary Harold Brown’s special assistant, attorney John Kester.
Carlucci, Weinberger and Richard Armitage (then assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs), are said to have given Powell his advanced degree in political manipulation, deceit and treachery.
Armitage, who Powell now claims is his best friend, has been linked by various news reports to CIA sanctioned arms and drug trafficking during the mid-’70s while working for a U.S. government agency based in Bangkok, Thailand. And, that’s not all. Syndicated columnist, Jack Anderson, reported in the Mar. 13, 1986 issue of the Washington Post that the President’s Commission on Organized Crime had questioned Armitage about his relationship with a Vietnamese refugee who was convicted in 1985 of running a major gambling operation in Arlington, Va.
http://www.usvetdsp.com/story13.htm
“No regrets” either about not just getting on a helicopter and flying 10 minutes down to My Lai so he might see first hand, rather then sitting down to type up the drivel as he did for the Americal Division commander from his air conditioned hooch in Chu Lai.
He should have been kicked out of the Army for Dereliction of Duty.
Yeah, me too. I did the same thing, sneak out at night, hop a chopper to chu lai or my lai, bs in an a/c hut with donut dollies and made it back to the field before I was missed. Bummer me...they could have sent me to nam ..again
“Another light-skinned African-American with no Negro dialect, unless he wants to have one.
A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”
Racially-biased and insensitive comments really have no place in 21st century America, sir.
Oh, wait - didn’t Harry Reid say this? Well, it must be OK, then - I didn’t hear the usual “spokespeople” complain about it.
Powell sees what he wants to see.
True colors eventually come out.
A good military man, but a lousy at politics and economic matters.
Everyone regrets Colon Bowel.
“What a shame. I did respect him back in Desert Storm.”
Me too. I liked him alot.
However, since then, he has gone downhill.
Earth to Powell....Hello...anybody home?
Right....and that true color was BLACK!
Like I said, “Keep me honest.”
Though at least you and I were enlisted, running as it were, our own Civil Affairs programs, which I’d say in some ways were alot more effective than officialdom. Which is not to excuse them, but remember, we never saw Molly and Dolly for sex. To get blasted, well maybe....
Powell though was on his way up. At the time, he was Assistant to Americal’s G-2.
I always took Stormin’ Norman’s side.
As I recall he didn’t exactly like old Powell way back then. Norman had a plan to end the conflict forever in Iraq and Powell got Bush to back off. Too bad.
Powell is a slime ball and an underhanded klutz - just like the Chicago crook he is boosting.
I don’t have any regrets about Colin Powell, never supported him, never favored him, never considered him sincere. Just another wobbly moved by Reagan and GHWB
You respected him in 1991 because you did not know him. Alma Powell was badmouthing the conciliatory Bushes back then, wasn’t she?
No more overrated than the intelligence of the American people. He probably did not run for President in 1996 because he couldn’t bear to vote against Bill.
Powell is the perfect example of how a Republican is not the same as a conservative. Sadly, many folks mistakenly equate the two. See "Mitt Romney supporters."
You can stick Mercedes Benz hood ornament on a Fiat, but it's still a Fiat. A statist can register as a Republican, but he/she is still a statist.
The moral of "Top Gun" was that a good pilot analyzes his mistakes and applies what he's learned. I've watched how the Republican party has become so mistaken in its increasing embrace of big-government statist philosophy, of operating by way of allowing statist Democrats to set the terms and then negotiating compromise on behalf of Republicans. I've analyzed the results of my policy of the past 30-plus years of voting for the Republican over the Democrat even when I knew the Republican was a statist.
I've learned that anytime I use my vote such that a statist Liberal Republican wins, I have pushed the Republican party to the left. It was a mistake -- I finally realized with Schwarzenegger -- and now I am applying what I've learned. If a statist Republican is on the ticket who's supposed "80 percent" as prescribed by Reagan is by sole virtue of being registered Republican, my vote will go elsewhere. People who don't like it call it being a "purist." Being a purist is foolish, Reagan acknowleged it, and I hold with Reagan. Being non-discriminatory is just as foolish, and I had formerly exercised ZERO DISCRIMINATION in voting for the Republican even when he/she was 80 percent statist.
I have FINALLY figured out that in choosing the lesser of two evils, which is a frequent fact of life not just in voting but in everyday existence, I must accurately identify which is the lesser evil. The statist Democrat only endangers the here-and-now; Obama's "hope," ironically, is in his galvanizing Americans against him and his party. The statist Republican is the greater evil because he/she sabotages the future of limited government conservatism.
ha ha ha...as Ed mcmahon would say, “That is corrrrrect”..*chuckle*
all facts my friend
Will Powell go along with reducing the US military to pre WW-II levels?
No surprise. It is difficult for the vain to admit a mistake.
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