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The Problem with Powell
US Defense Watch ^ | September 15, 2016 | Ray Starmann

Posted on 09/15/2016 7:22:29 PM PDT by pboyington

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To: Da Coyote
Powell's problem is that he has been seen as the guy who was the "weapons of mass destruction" chump.

What he doesn't want the world to know, is that he had his doubts, but played along anyway.

21 posted on 09/15/2016 8:02:15 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: tiki

I wonder if he’s reflecting on ‘hubris’ right now...


22 posted on 09/15/2016 8:04:45 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Da Coyote

If Colin Powell was white, he might have been a reasonably successful manager at a Wal-Mart store.


23 posted on 09/15/2016 8:25:34 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Colon likes being a house black rather than a field black. Food is better. I respect the field blacks, they works for their food, Colon does a Monica on everyone in the house.


24 posted on 09/15/2016 8:39:54 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex)
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To: pboyington

Why does anyone listen to the racist Colon? He said that he voted for B.O. because of his race (twice)!


25 posted on 09/15/2016 9:13:54 PM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: Da Coyote

Powell was just the ORIGINAL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION GENERAL, he just stuck with it long enough to become the first AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CoJCS.


26 posted on 09/15/2016 9:15:18 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: leprechaun9

The guy is an affirmative-action racist political hack LIB loser kiss-up. His career should have ended right after My Lai.


27 posted on 09/15/2016 9:25:31 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: pboyington

the one thing this election cycle has taught me is how much elitist have manipulated me over the years. I am embarrassed that I defended in public what the bush family did while in office, I am embarrassed that I was impressed by Powell when he was a general. I now realize he was a perfumed peacock. at this point the trust factor for me of anyone in the republican party is about 30 percent and 5 percent for the democrats. I think that any politician that has strong links to the bohemian grove should be ignored.


28 posted on 09/15/2016 9:36:23 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: Da Coyote

An affirmative action hire and nothing more.When the rubber met the road his true colors shown thru.


29 posted on 09/15/2016 9:51:19 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Da Coyote

So glad to read other ppl saying the same kinds of things about Powell. I called him a whiny bitch earlier, a malicious gossip, due in part to reading his own words, where he talks to another guy about having to have a tantrum to get some attention from Clinton’s minions; crybabies about not being able to charge a high enough fee; calls white people poor white trash; etc etc.

I keep thinking about how Americans trust a man like him to be better than the rest, because he’s responsible for so many lives, and leading from a position of strength—to find out what he’s really like, makes his military leadership very suspect, and his character lacking.


30 posted on 09/15/2016 10:03:19 PM PDT by unsycophant
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Calling him Colon Bowel is so childish & immature...made me laugh! Right on.


31 posted on 09/15/2016 10:03:59 PM PDT by unsycophant
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To: PCPOET7

co-sign!
BTTT.


32 posted on 09/15/2016 10:04:48 PM PDT by unsycophant
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To: pboyington

not transformational?
Powell must think socialism is not enough.


33 posted on 09/15/2016 10:06:09 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Organic Panic

Agreed, there is something too convenient about this. Would he like to be President, if Hill keels over?


34 posted on 09/15/2016 10:12:17 PM PDT by The Westerner (When Speech is no longer Free, neither will we be.)
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To: unsycophant

Powell got his big boost from RWR and promotions from
the Bushes. That explains why he became a Republican.
He had almost no identify with the philosophy of any
wing of the party. He was befriended by powerful
Republicans, that’s all. If you think about it the
same is true for weakling Arnold Swartzenegger.


35 posted on 09/15/2016 10:51:37 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf.)
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To: The Westerner

Yes why Colin emails, very strange indeed.


36 posted on 09/15/2016 11:01:50 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: pboyington

Let me be blunt. Colin Powell has proved himself to be a “dick”. His word, not mine.


37 posted on 09/15/2016 11:08:57 PM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: pboyington

A few outed emails and he has burned all the bridges he has spent years trying to cultivate.Good.Go back to the Grove and worship the trees CP.


38 posted on 09/16/2016 1:37:08 AM PDT by Lent
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To: pboyington
“Powell will vote for Hillary because they are both members of the global elite establishment. Like Hillary and his stuffed shirt robber baron colleagues at Bohemian Grove and Bilderberg, Powell believes that he has superior knowledge over the rest of the American populace, particularly those in Hillary’s infamous basket of deplorable.”

Exactly correct, and is why we can't have career politicians. That type of system attracts and concentrates people like this.

39 posted on 09/16/2016 3:16:45 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Paladin2

More’s the pity.


40 posted on 09/16/2016 5:50:37 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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