Colin Powell: Iran Deal Is a 'Pretty Good Deal'

[kpete]

Colin Powell: Iran Deal Is a 'Pretty Good Deal'

"It's a pretty good deal," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Critics concerned that the deal will expedite Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapon, Powell added, are "forgetting the reality that (Iranian leaders] have been on a superhighway, for the last 10 years, to create a nuclear weapon or a nuclear weapons program, with no speed limit."

He said the reduction in centrifuges, Iran's uranium stockpile and their agreement to shut down their plutonium reactor were all "remarkable."

"These are remarkable changes, and so we have stopped this highway race that they were going down — and I think that's very, very important," Powell said.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/iran-nuclear-talks/colin-powell-iran-deal-pretty-good-deal-n422551

[Johonny]

1. Powell would likely be leading in the GOP polls

had not Cheney and W destroyed his career. He'll always be the guy that they sent to the UN to tell the stack of myths about Iraq now.

[Sunlei]

2. C. Powell would have won if Republicans ran him instead of palin/mccain. Rs don't like him

because he called those extreme republicans dangerous and has always supported Obama.

[Sunlei]

3. He would have also done much better then Romney.

But I don't think he cares to run for republicans, branded by their own party as "Crazies".

[Fred Sanders]

4. Powell destroyed his own career when he forced the world, at the UN, to swallow fake Niger yellowcake placed in aluminum tubes...apologize, sir.

I remember that speech like it was yesterday because the sheer audacity and transparency of the Big Lie was burned into my brain as the ultimate example of how effective American mass propaganda can be when delivered by trusted men and then uncritically repeated incessantly by a trusted mass media.

73% of Americans polled supported the Iraq war when it began.....the propaganda was overwhelmingly successful because the mass media abandoned their posts....and are doing it again.

[Gothmog]

5. This is an important endorsement of this deal

[CTyankee]

8. I agree. It has some gravitas behind it.

[rug]

7. He's probably right but his credibility on WMDs is long gone.

[UTUSN]

9. when colon might have mattered he flunked every time

Starting with my lai