[freespirited]

I hadn't realized that Powell's letter was addressed to McCain. Now it's clear how all this likely went down: McCain or one of his top staff called Powell and Vessey and asked them to provide letters stating their opposition to the President's proposal.

McCain then released the letters to his favorite people, the lamestream media.

[evad]

..redefine Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention..

Normally you have to go deeper than the first sentence to establish a false premise.

To my knowledge, no one is trying to "redefine" anything.

[TexasTransplant]

Strike "Three" Colin Bowel

You are otta there! Go work on your Volvos in peace and anonymity.

TT

[ctauch]

And Powell, McCain and their ilk show their ignorance, or is that stupidity, once again.

From all accounts their is no redifinition of Article 3 but a clear and concise definition, by the administration, being sought.

No one, to the best of my knowledge, has ever provided a clear definition of torture. It has always been phrased in vague generalities that could include being served tea instead of coffee.

Hell if that's the case my marriage is torture...UN please save me from my marriage!

[avacado]

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Sincerely,

Colin L. Powell
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The FDF file that you show has the letter ending with John McCain signing off -- to a letter he wrote. I didn't see Colin Powell's name???????

[tobyhill]

"I do not support such a step and believe it would be inconsistent with the McCain amendment on torture which I supported last year."

How would that be the case if it's the President asking to attach the McCain amendment on torture in order to clarify the Geneva Convention article 3?

[Williams]

For him to write that the world is doubting the morality of our war on terror is shameful. He means he is doubting it.

[technomage]

Is this the same Colon Powell (yes I know how to spell his name) that kept silent for THREE YEARS when he knew that his buddy in arms at the State Department, Armitage, was the leaker in the Plame case??

What little respect I had for this man has completely evaporated.

[ARE SOLE]

Now it's clear how all this likely went down:

Keep in mind Novak's announcement that his source on outing Plame as CIA, Armitage (and Powell), came out the same time.

This was to also timed to get the news of Powell and Armitage betraying the President off the front page.

Regards.

[rlmorel]

"...It was written after all the horrors World War II and General George C. Marshall, then Secretary of Defense..."

His hero is George C. Marshall? Personally, I am inclined to side with Joseph McCarthy in what he implies in his dissertation Retreat From Victory

Whether you agree or disagree with what he implies, he meticulously put this together and had the guts to lay it on the line in public.

[Boazo]

[radar101]

Powell= RINO
NY Times= Zero Credibility

[popdonnelly]

If it's in the Times, I could care less. I won't read it.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Explain to the Parents and other loved ones(me for one) of our brave warriors, Powell, you wimpy @$$ sucking sonovabitch! Just who the hell honors any moral obligation,including the Geneva Convention wnen it comes to treating America's Sons and daughters in military service, even close to as mercifully as moron's such as you force our troops to extend to an enemy that is as devoid of mercy as you, Colin, are devoid of common sense.

The worst blunder of the Bush Administration, Gen Powell, was assuming that you was on our side.