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Colin Powell: U.S. Should Not ‘Single Out Just Muslims as Being Bad’
PJ Media ^ | 9-28-2016 | Nicholas Ballasy

Posted on 09/30/2016 7:45:36 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

WASHINGTON – Using the war in Libya and the conflict in Syria as examples, former Secretary of State Colin Powell cautioned against U.S.-backed regime changes.

Touching upon the debate surrounding U.S. immigration from the Middle East, Powell said Muslims should not be “singled out” as threats.

“You better be careful because – and I have considerable experience with this – just taking out the regime doesn’t necessarily fix the problem. ...... (snip) “As I have said to my old bosses, President Bush and others, be careful what you do. Remember if you take out a regime you become the new regime until you can figure out a way to pass it on to the people who live there,” he added.

(snip, couldn't help himself jabbing at Trump)

“We should not isolate and single out just Muslims as being bad. We do have terrorists that come from the Muslim community but we also have some that are homegrown, nutty terrorists that do terrible things. But it would not be our way of doing things if we were to condemn an entire people merely because of their religious belief, and I’ve spoken out on this repeatedly,” Powell said.

“Most recently on the birther issue where some of the people pushing to see the president’s birth certificate also wanted to see if he was a Muslim – does it say so on the birth certificate, and my response has been, so what? You know, we get Muslims born in this country all day long and we want them as long as they are good citizens, and they are good citizens,” he added.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: colinpowell; globaljihad; muslims; radicalislam
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Useless turd. As if Powell has any solution for the ME conflict and the REAL mooooslem threat inside our border. As I remembered (somebody correct me), we turned over sovereignty to the Iraqis soon afterwards, no?

Too mad right now to form a coherent response. I'll comment in a few minute.

1 posted on 09/30/2016 7:45:36 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

Or they might kill us?


2 posted on 09/30/2016 7:46:32 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Sir Napsalot

Okay, Muslims and Satanists are bad.


3 posted on 09/30/2016 7:47:30 AM PDT by DannyTN
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You are so write Gen. Powell, we should single out muslims AND all the people like you who in any way defend them. Consider it done, Benedict Colin Arnold Powell.


4 posted on 09/30/2016 7:48:00 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: DannyTN
Okay, Muslims and Satanists are bad.

And Ninja's.

5 posted on 09/30/2016 7:48:06 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Sir Napsalot

OK, Colon Blow: Leftists, Socialists, Communists, fellow travelers, academics, celebutards, and the media, too.


6 posted on 09/30/2016 7:48:08 AM PDT by nickedknack
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To: Sir Napsalot

Colon, trying to dick the USA - again.


7 posted on 09/30/2016 7:48:08 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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But it would not be our way of doing things if we were to condemn an entire people merely because of their religious belief,
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Tell me, Colon Bowel, what other religion has as its goal world domination and the deaths of everyone else?


8 posted on 09/30/2016 7:48:09 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: DannyTN

Muslims and Satanists and the Thugee cult of Kali are bad.


9 posted on 09/30/2016 7:48:17 AM PDT by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

...and Kaepernick / BLM, too.


10 posted on 09/30/2016 7:49:00 AM PDT by nickedknack
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To: Sir Napsalot

We don’t, we all include illegal aliens that sneak into the country. There are of course home grown bad people, and once they expose themselves we go after them as well. What an effin stupid statement Colin.


11 posted on 09/30/2016 7:49:28 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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And who else is bad? Who else shoots up malls, runs over hundreds in trucks, bombs parades and marathons, shoots up dance clubs and work places???? hmmmm?? What the hell happened to him?


12 posted on 09/30/2016 7:50:11 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: agere_contra

Kali Ma!

13 posted on 09/30/2016 7:50:28 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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Spoken like a true globalist. I used to like him.

Hell, even the home grown ones are allah stooges.


14 posted on 09/30/2016 7:50:32 AM PDT by Jay Thomas (If not for my faith in Christ, I would despair.)
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Why not? They NEED singling out. They murder for their religion.


15 posted on 09/30/2016 7:50:41 AM PDT by madison10 (Proud to be a Deplorable)
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OK, Colin. YOU BAD, TOO! YOU are partly responsible for
this PUTTER we’ve been stuck with for almost 8 yrs. now!
RINO!! BLACK is skin deep.


16 posted on 09/30/2016 7:50:42 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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Yea Colin! Those pernicious Christian and Jews are just as bad as Muslims, right Colin?!?!

Colin Powell is a clown. Just like a broken clock, he was "on time" about Iraq. But everything else he says is tripe.
17 posted on 09/30/2016 7:50:58 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Yeah, you know how those Amish can act up. So, Colon, are you also suggesting the terrorist group BLM???


18 posted on 09/30/2016 7:51:00 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: agere_contra
Don't leave out these guys...


19 posted on 09/30/2016 7:51:02 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Sir Napsalot

“Most recently on the birther issue where some of the people pushing to see the president’s birth certificate
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Maybe they wanted the Constitution upheld........

Birtherism” is the greatest Alinsky ever perpetrated.

They have gotten the American people to reject one of the most valuable safeguards bequeathed to us by the founders.
The natural born citizen clause served us well until we ignored it.
Barry Soetoro/Barack Hussein Obama should be proof enough of the wisdom of the founders when they tried to prevent him from being President by requiring someone who could only be a US citizen and nothing else.
Born here of citizen parents.
Naturally a US citizen because there is no other possibility.
One cannot be anything else and also be a natural born citizen.

It does not matter if he was born in Hawaii if his father was a foreign national.
Children of foreign nationals inherit the nationality of their foreign national parent(s).
Natural born citizen means born here of citizen parents.
No other possible citizenship(s).
Only when one cannot be anything else can one be a natural born citizen.

No foreign birth.
No foreign parent(s)
No foreign citizenship(s)
No foreign influence on the Presidency is what John Jay stated in a letter to George Washington as the reason for insisting on a natural born citizen.

Obama told us he was born a British subject.

Who believes Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Jay, Monroe, Madison, etc. would have found him to be a natural born citizen?

Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009, happened with the complete cooperation of both parties.
They want the Constitution changed without the hassle of amending the Constitution.
Confuse people about the clear meaning of a three word phrase and voila, every anchor baby and Winston Churchill is eligible.

The bench was the reason the GOP went along with the fig leaf resolution for McCain that was used by the Democrats as cover for Obama.
Jindal, Rubio, Haley and Cruz were all up and comers and the future of the party and ineligible.

The truth of the Kenyanesian Usurpation will never see the light of day because both parties cooperated in the violation of the Constitution


20 posted on 09/30/2016 7:51:12 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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