Colin Powell is still selling snake oil

[SHRED]

Is he on a book tour or something?
What's he trying to sell?

Instead of resigning immediately back then, out of protest, and going to the press with the facts, he goes to the U.N. instead with the phony mobile labs story?

This jackass suckbutt should explain, to the families of the dead and maimed, why he kept quiet with the truth.

"Than anyone had anticipated, and even more than anyone, including myself, had foreseen."
~Powell
Yeah right Colin. You were deaf back then spouting the company line like a good little soldier.
Even a half-wit like you could have exercised your memory banks to realize that hummmm...maybe they didn't like the CIA overthrow of their country in the '60s, maybe Rummy providing chemical weapons to Saddam ruffled a few feathers, maybe Bush Sr. pissed off a few Shi'ites by allowing Baathist gunship fly-over slaughter following egging them on to "rise up", maybe they didn't care for the sanctions, and on and on...

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Transcript:

POWELL: There were debates about the size of the force and there were serious debates about the way in which we would deal with the aftermath, and the aftermath turned out to be much more difficult than anyone had anticipated.

Q: More difficult than you had even foreseen?

POWELL: Than anyone had anticipated, and even more than anyone, including myself, had foreseen. But just because you didn’t foresee it, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have planned for the unforeseen. I have always been one who favored a larger military presence in an operation to make sure that you can deal with the unforeseen, but in the case of the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, you had institutions being destroyed, you had ministries being burned down, and I have said on many occasions I don’t think we had enough force there at that time to impose order. That’s what we were responsible for, because when you have taken out a government, a regime, then you become responsible for the country.

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POWELL: I made the case to General Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president though that it was not sure we had enough troops, and so the case was made. It was listened to. It was considered. And those responsible for the troop levels, Mr Rumsfeld and General Franks, and the joint chiefs of staff, which include the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, believed they had the appropriate troop level.


VIDEO: Powell Says U.S. Went Into Iraq Without Enough Troops
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/30/powell-troops/

[acmejack]

1. Well said, shred.

You do indeed have a way with the language! "Jackass Suckbutt" LOL, a great name for old colonel My Lai, who has had vast experience at the CYOA game...

[xchrom]

2. he's a kool-aid drinker trying to

save his legacy.

[RethugAssKicker]

3. Powell is foremost a loyal soldier... old time soldier

Would never go against his commander in chief...

Don't expect anything out of Colin... He even admits it in his own autobiography !

[Joe Fields]

4. Powell is just posturing to try and cover his ass for the future.....

investigations into intelligence leading up to the Iraq war. Investigations will surely come, and Powell is smart enough to see them coming eventually and head things off at the pass.

[ChiciB1]

5. Powell Goes Way Back...

SCREW HIM and the all the baggage he carries with him!

I dare say he's contributed a goodly amount to the death of thousands of soldiers and innocent civilians. Can you say My Lai Powell???