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"I lurk on this site and have seen no reason to post in the past"

This is nothing but a troll's typical futile effort to worm his way into a thread.

"Sorry. I'm having an intelligent conversation on another thread."

Yes, I an sure you are having all kinds of intelligent conversations on the DUmmies boards.

"I believe he is doing his job to the best of his ability."

Not exactly a stellar vote of confidence considering all the praise you heap on the useless jerk Powell who is "a great American", yet is now in the pocket of the Left in Silicon Valley sucking up their cash while he spews a bunch of crap about "mistakes in Iraq".

Your agenda is to make Powell shine so that his words will drive a wedge between Republicans. Unfortunately for you us Republicans are aware of his complete failure at his job in the State Department and how he allowed the French to run their game at the U.N.

Nothing has changed, you are a troll idiot newly signed on to FR and I have exposed you as such. Now go ahead and waste more of your time here LibIdiot, nobody gives a crap what you post anyway.

"Your agenda is to make Powell shine so that his words will drive a wedge between Republicans. Unfortunately for you us Republicans are aware of his complete failure at his job in the State Department and how he allowed the French to run their game at the U.N."

Bingo. Powell was a complete utter failure and Secretary of State. As for the mistakes in Iraq, too bad Naptowne's wisdom was NOT available to us December, 1944. Talk about military mistakes that one cost Americans 80,000 US casualties in six weeks. The war in Iraq is NOTHING compared to the European Theater OR the Japanese Theater. So, all the nonsense spewing forth from the Naptownes here on FR and MSM, UN, and the DNC are just smoke getting in the way of the firefighters.

It makes me laugh reading Powell's words. The only thing I would have changed so far, would have been to totally flatten Tikrit and Fallujah a la Dresden/Berlin in WW2. I would have than held them up as examples to Ramadi, etc.

But then we would have heard Naptowne's et al., complaining that we aren't winning the hearts and minds of the to be insurgents...blah, blah, blah...so forth and so on.

Your posts expose nothing more than a pathetically childish style of argumentation that resorts to straw-man arguments and mane calling. You accuse me of being a liberal democrat. I suppose I am the only liberal on the planet who the believes in a strong national defense and intelligence apparatus, low taxes (I own my own business and resent being fleeced by the Government this time of year), firearm restriction laws that keep firearms out of the hand of everyone except criminals, stronger borders, and I could keep going but feel no need to waste more of my time refuting your idiotic assertions about my political beliefs.

I'll simply point out that Colin Powell probably knows a little more about military strategy than you.

I'll will also note that I find it amusing that someone who would leave America to live in a quasi-Marxist state such as Germany would have the audacity to suggest that I hold socialist beliefs or that I am unpatriotic simply because my opinions are not "told" to me by the talking points memos of any political party. I am not the one pumping capital into the economy of a nation that stabbed us in the back in the process leading up to the invasion of Iraq. You sound more like a liberal than I ever will by blaming Colin Powell for France, Germany, Russia, and China's refusal to support our Iraq policy. That was the same criticism Howard Dean used to attack the Bush Administration; and yes when you attack Colin Powell's performance as Secretary of State you are also attacking the Bush Administration because Bush appointed him and could have removed him at any time he wanted. Quite conservative you to side with Chirac and blame Powell for France's and your adoptive nation's vested economic interests in keeping Sadaam Hussein in power.