Powell "Never Believed" Iraq/Niger Connection - Robert Scheer

[kpete]

Colin Powell "Never Believed" Iraq/Niger Uranium Connection, Playing Up Nuclear Threat "Was All Cheney"...
Truthdig | Robert Scheer | Posted April 11, 2006 11:16 PM

AP/Doug Mills

THE PRESIDENT played the scoundrel -- even the best of his minions went along with the lies -- and when a former ambassador dared to tell the truth, the White House initiated what Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald calls "a plan to discredit, punish or seek revenge against Mr. Wilson." That is the important story line.

If not for the whistle-blower, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, President Bush's falsehoods about the Iraq nuclear threat likely would never have been exposed.

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[malaise]

1. Then he's worst than all of the goons

He said nothing and went along for the ride.

[Punkingal]

2. I agree...

I have nothing but contempt for him. He is as bad as the rest of them. And as cowardly.

[HereSince1628]

6. Powell is a toad today, just like he was when he helped cover-up Mai Lai

oh so many years ago.

You know what they say a toad doesn't change its warts.

[TAPat]

3. Stay tuned for my rant on Mr. Powell -

I was going to do it yesterday, but this gives me more ammo - Thanks! :hi:

[cyclezealot]

4. Back ground reports said Powell was forced into his UN speech.

ANd internally he is very bitter over his being so used by Bush's cronies.
Guess, being loyal. WHy should Powell be bitter against his former top aide who is on the hustings blasing Bush.? Probably, Powell wants to keep in mind he might some day need run for higher office as a Repug?

[rodeodance]

8. Powell is suspose to be a leader-----We now know the it is loyality that

trumps everything.

[cyclezealot]

15. Nation magazine just reported on their web site.

Powell just said he never believed Iraq's reports of WMD's. Yet, recall his UN speech. He admitted he is a big liar. And call him a leader. He said Bush believed, instead Cheney and Rumsfield and their Neo COn's. Crazy, Powell to admit he lied to satisify his string puller. What is wrong with the US. Look what happend to Blair's underministers. How many resigned because they knew of the DOwning Street Memo before the rest of the world did.
Powell should have done the same thing if he is an honorable person. ANd he might run for president and we should trust him.

[helderheid]

16. did they put a gun to his head?

[cyclezealot]

17. I recall reports he was put under lots of pressure.

[cynatnite]

5. Here, too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=911826&mesg_id=911826

[rodeodance]

7. Powell is the worst kind of 'partriot"---the kind that KNOWS and still sen

ds troops in to die! the worst kind in my book.

[kentuck]

9. First thing read this morning...

bummer

[MADem]

10. The headline should read "The Man Who Did Not Speak Out"

Powell was the scoundrel, here. The Monkey was the evil overlord. Powell went along. Completely unforgivable. Amazing what power and hubris will do to some--strip away every sense of decency.

Well, he has to live with himself. Not the way I'd want to spend my dotage, frankly.

[rpannier]

11. Then he NEVER should have tried to sell it

I'm tired of hearing about the good soldier.
Lord, even some in Hitler's General Staff finally turned on him.

[dogday]

12. He said "If You Break It, You Have Bought It" and

no truer words have been spoken... Iraq is broken and we are responsible....

[Virginia Dare]

13. Powell obviously doesn't worry about a little blood on his hands..

or even alot for that matter.

[bklyncowgirl]

14. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil....

...is for good men to do nothing.’

Powell chose for reasons of his own to aid and abet this administration in its determination to go to war with a country that had not attacked us and that he knew posed no threat to us. As an experienced military man he must have known how inadequate Rumsfeld's plans were to secure Iraq once its government had been toppled. Moreover, he stayed on until after the election to provide Bush with some figleaf of respectability.

He could have left at any time even if he chose not to speak out.

He is an accessory to the crime and must live with this knowledge for the rest of his life.

Unfortunately so must the rest of us.