So, you progressives are throwing powell under the bus?’

Here we go; Powell threw HIMSELF under the bus by participating in this shit stained regime and their greedy little war. Aligning himself with this fetid cabal was the biggest political mistake he made, but sadly not the last. By allowing himself to become the spokesman for the Iraq war at his infamous UN appearance, Powell sealed his own fate, and HAD to know the risk he was taking by advocating the war on a pack of lies; he made his choice and the rest is history.

If you want to blame anyone for his demise, blame him.

‘Progressives’ had nothing to do with it.

When Powell stood before Congress and presented their case, he intentionally made it appear as if he had personally seen and evaluated the evidence and not merely the summary opinion. When you stand in front of a map, point at specific fuzzy areas with a little stick and claim that chemical-weapon-manufacturing taco wagons are located here, here, and… here – then you’re doing more than repeating a cover-page summary. You’re intentionally creating theater to manipulate people into thinking that you’ve staked your own reputation on the reliability of all of the underlying information. That you’ve seen it with your own eyes and are describing it accurately. However, that must be a lie, since no such underlying evidence existed!

But that’s exactly why Powell was trotted out for that job – he was the only one with any reputation for honesty they had. And he blew all that capital in one fantastical push that got them the authority from Congress that they wanted (but just to “negotiate from a position of strength, trust us”).

You only get to blow that wad once. No matter what else he does, he doesn’t get his honor back.

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EugeneDebs Says:

I’d say unlikely. He would still be there with that blowtorch and what are the chances no one would notice. That is one of the stupidest plots I have ever heard of. I laughed out loud when I read about it.

And yet as we’ve seen here, there are wingnuts running around believing to this day that torture saved the Brooklyn Bridge. Not the impossibility of physically dismantling one of the most massive structures in modern times in the middle of New York with no one noticing… no, torture saved the day yet again.

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Yankeluh Says:

Why are all these semi-intelligent people surprised that the CIA lies? They are spies, they lie. It is their job. Unfortunately they lie to us and the world.

Yeah, well maybe they should remember who they work for, if they want to keep on working, capische?

OS is a binary thinker

he only sees the extreme of any issue

to him you are either homophobic or you are gay

to him you are either red or blue

to him you either hate this or hate that

binary thinking moron

You either approve of gay marriage or you hate gays.

Binary thinking moron. ;)

3) Didn’t Bush/Cheney/Powell tell the CIA to work on this again and to return only after they found a link between 9/11 and Iraq?

9/11 was an inside job!

I don’t know that any of them believe that torture was involved. I don’t know that in fact. A lot of speculation, particularly by people who never attended any of these meetings, but I’m not aware of it.

They certainly did! Powell shamefull speach in the UN about Saddam WMD and ‘mobile labs’ and other LIES had the War Criminal Tenent and The War Criminal Negroponte siting behind him. YouTube it!
Negroponte was the US’s embassador to Honduras. There, this animal helped the US finance and support the Paramilitary Terrorist milicias who Terrorised, murdered and Torture Nicaragua civilians. Negropont/US/War criminals destroyed Nicaragua’s Democratic elected government in the 80’s.

I don’t trust the War criminals Powell, Tenet and Negroponte!

True or False: Is it true that a planned bombing of the Brooklyn Bridge was prevented due the the torture of a captured terrorist?

False.

From GlobalSecurity.org

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed tasked Iyman Faris, a naturalized American citizen working for al-Qaeda, to study the feasibility of using gas cutters to cut through the cables of the Brooklyn Bridge.

He was also tasked to buy equipment to derail a train in the Washington, D.C., area.

Faris scouted the Brooklyn Bridge and determined it was unlikely such an attack would work.

It is all too obvious he lies as well as his compatriots in crime. Is there a justice system in America that can crack this case? Or are all able bodied inspectors tied up chasing a crime that was setup for them, a crime made for a Fox (viewer).

Powell is just another lying war criminal, who just can’t quite face up and man up to his past crimes against humanity. After eight years of Bush crime family values: torture, treason and tyranny being imposed on the American people, cowardly Republicans are afraid to face the facts.

Ditto!

1) Didn’t the CIA tell Bush/Cheney/Powell that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11?

2) And didn’t Bush/Cheney/Powell tell the CIA that they weren’t satisfied with that answer?

3) Didn’t Bush/Cheney/Powell tell the CIA to work on this again and to return only after they found a link between 9/11 and Iraq?

http://www.alternet.org/politics/140221/bush%27s_shocking_biblical_prophecy_emerges%3A_god_wants_to_%22erase%22_mid-east_enemies_%22before_a_new_age_begins%22/

Was Powell buying into this?

This is my problem with Powell — he’s never entirely honest.
May 26th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

Edit: “He’s never been entirely honest.”

Fixtit…goes back to his days trying to figure out how to cover up/whitewash My Lai in ‘68 for the Brass…

It was just a couple weeks ago you loons were taking his word as gospel….
May 26th, 2009 at 12:33 pm

No, we were agreeing with him on the state of the Republican party — that does not imply across the board agreement.

Only morons like you take anything as gospel.

He knows where the meat hangs, where the bread and buter are, and he’s ALWAYS gonna have acces to the good shit.

Expediency IS his sole ‘principle.”

I wish the Pukes would keep him. The Dims have a full quiver of equivocating, opportunistic liars…