Comments on: Powell Tells Of Dysfunctional White House, ‘We Weren’t Aware Of The Advice Cheney Was Giving’

By: cabbage Head

cabbage Head — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:18:05 +0000

Here we go again. Powell doesn’t admit to being a liar, or to being a dupe, or being too stupid to know what was going on. He just accuses his boss of keeping him out of the loop. Powell is trying to polish his image, just like Tennant of CIA and the other crooks who implemented the Iraq disaster by misleading the American people. They all deserve to be tried for war crimes. Maybe Powell would have to tell the truth if he were under oath at Cheney’s Impeachment trial. The soft interviews are just more misdirection by miscreants. Sorry to find that this order-taker didn’t live up to his earlier career and became a hack for the White House crooks. Impeach Them.

By: Sam Geiger

Sam Geiger — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:12:12 +0000

Your silence, your complicity, your taking orders like a good soldier–for all these things, I look down upon you now. I am sure you thought you were fighting on the side of the good, because you quit after the first term. However, you should have quit sooner or stayed in there and fought like Hell, causing a riot from within.

Your son should be an embarrassment to you. If he is not, I respect you even less.

I would have voted for you if you had run for President, but I see now that you do not have the leadership skills.

By: big papa

big papa — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:42:31 +0000

Comment by BaritoneWoman #99

…I’m always amazed…

…at how lower-life form scum…

…like BaritoneSlime…

…is trained to type…

…what a neat trick…

By: BaritoneWoman

BaritoneWoman — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:33:18 +0000

Sorry, but Colin Powell is not a man. He is less than a man. Three/fifths of one, to be exact.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:57:31 +0000

A country that does not learn from its mistakes is doomed. A country that is politically unconscious is doomed to loose its civil liberties. We are so preoccupied wit acquiring wealth and toys that we do not question our leaders, which are leading us to total annihilation . And we have been warned.

If Tyranny and Oppression Come to this Land,
it Will be in the Guise of Fighting a Foreign Enemy -
James Madison

The Means of Defense Against Foreign Danger
Historically have Become the Instruments of
Tyranny at Home –
James Madison

They that can Give Up Essential Liberty to
Obtain a Little Temporary Safety Deserve
Neither Liberty Nor Safety –
Benjamin Franklin

That We are to Stand By the President,
Right or Wrong, is not Only Unpatriotic
and Servile, but is Morally Treasonable
to the American Public –
Theodore Roosevelt

By: Rosanne

Rosanne — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:27:50 +0000

Comment to katie re colin powell being “a liar, a coward and and a traitor.

I have to agree with your estimation of powell’s cowardice and being a traitor. I disagree with your assertion that he is not a liar; just too trusting to believe in his president.

If he didnt lie then he was made a fool of by “his president”. If chimpy mcflightsuit can fool a supposedly intelligent man like colin powell, what does that say about mr powell? Ergo, he is dumber than chimpy; a scary thought about someone who has led troops into battle.

I used to respect mr powell and thought that he was one of the good guys. I would have even voted for him for president even though Im not a rethuglican but I have lost all respect for him. The best thing he could do for this country is to STFU!! We know how bad things were and are in this administration. We needed you to tell us THEN, when your speaking out might have done something to prevent the headlong rush to invade a country merely for oil. Before hundreds of thousands of innocent lives were ruined. When Iraq was a country that had an infrastructure. As another poster has said, too little, too late.

And to write books and make money off this horrible situation is whoring, plain and simple. I had thought better of you, mr powell.

SHAME, SHAME ON YOU!!

By: RichM

RichM — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:56:39 +0000

When looking at Powell one has to make the distinction of whether to perceive him as a military man or a politician. If you perceive him as a military man in the truest sense of honor, duty, country then you would expect him to be forthright and honest, stating his position as honestly as possible, letting the chips fall where they may, irrespective of personal consequences. If you perceive him as a politician, then like a slimey used car salesman, no means or methods of accomplishing your end objective are off the table. From the time he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the Armed Forces until his recent departure from the office of Secretary of State Colin Powell has been a politician. And we were expecting a military man. We need to learn to make the distinction.

By: The Oracle

The Oracle — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:29:23 +0000

Not only GITMO, but only when Bush and Cheney are thrown out of the White House can our country hope to salvage our reputation again, after the brutal savaging done to our nation, our Constitution, our “rule of law,” by two of the most corrupt individuals ever to befoul the White House.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:51:55 +0000

i think powell would have fared better as an independent or a democrat, believe it or not. he may have been seen more favorably and as something of an elder statesman and would no doubt have been able to express his ideas more openly, but no, he casts his lot with the very party that has not only treated him poorly, but forever sullied his once sterling reputation.

By: kellamd

kellamd — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:25:39 +0000

Now that it’s safe the cowards speak up.

By: jim jones

jim jones — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:21:18 +0000

May Bush and Chaney burn in hell

By: big papa

big papa — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:06:05 +0000

Colin Powell stated unequivocally (in that King interview)…

…that he believes the decision to invade Iraq was the right one…

…his fate is sealed…

By: Gary Novosielski

Gary Novosielski — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:46:35 +0000

This is the same Powell who was partly responsible for whitewashing the My Lai massacre when he was in Vietnam, and then later claimed to deplore it.

Same old same old.

By: richard

richard — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:39:57 +0000

Bush never has a chance of being installed by Scalia et al, if Powell doesn’t stand shoulder to shoulder with him during the 2000 campaign. No one would have relied on Bush’s brain, but many were willing to trust Bush to trust Powell. But Powell was outwitted, outplayed, and duped. He only has himself to blame for the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in this war. He is a disgrace, who was willing to subject the nation/world to exceptional incompetence for the sake of advancing his own career. He was one who actually knew better and did nothing.

By: sid

sid — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:32:30 +0000

nevertheless, it was his speech that got the ball into play.

By: evan

evan — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:04:36 +0000

FYI: Scooter Libby was the one that wrote the letter that Powell read to the UN.

By: evan

evan — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:03:32 +0000

FYI: Scooter Libby was the one that wrote the UN letter Powell read to the UN.

By: disgusted

disgusted — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:00:12 +0000

Knowing Mr. Powell and haveing had the honor of serveing with him prior to his move to the Pentagon I was extremely frustrated in his early years watching him be a yes man for the bush crime family and the TRAITOR cheney. Yet when he did not follow through on the second fixed election iclaimed the rats are jumping ship and he proved me right.

Yet it is with a heavy heart that I can not forgive him as he put his own interest in front of those that were there for this Country, as a retired MILITARY COMBAT VET. I can not forgive for the betrayal of his sacred duty to blow the whistle on these crimminals.

So all I can say now is he is saying alot way to late, I can not find it in my heart to forgive for the betrayal of this Country, the TALKING MONKEY and the GUTLESS, COWARD, SPINELESS, TRAITOR cheney were given a green light to put this country in harms way and reduce us to a THIRD WORLD DESPOT GOVERNMENT.

No, I can not forgive or forget it hurts way to much. What happened to the Oath from WEST POINT, the OATH for the Secretary of State, all meaningless and that much more so now because he failed to talk up, and now is trying to set the record straight.

By: sid

sid — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:44:32 +0000

Colin Powell is a Fifth Columnist; remember his speach at the UN?

liar…liar…liar

remember the My Lai Massacre report! …..Powell…..Powell….Powell

By: sid

sid — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:33:52 +0000

powell who??