Posted on 07/08/2007 3:55:43 PM PDT by Enchante
FORMER US secretary of state Colin Powell has revealed that he spent 2 1/2 hours vainly trying to persuade President George W. Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today's conflict cannot be resolved by US forces.
"I tried to avoid this war," Mr Powell said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. "I took him through the consequences of going into an Arab country and becoming the occupiers."
Mr Powell has become increasingly outspoken about the level of violence in Iraq, which he believes is in a state of civil war.
"The civil war will ultimately be resolved by a test of arms. It's not going to be pretty to watch, but I don't know any way to avoid it. It is happening now," he said.
He added: "It is not a civil war that can be put down or solved by the armed forces of the United States."
The signs are that the views of Mr Powell and other critics of the war are finally being heard in the Pentagon, if not yet in the White House.
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Please change the colors of the headgear to black and white instead of blue and red.
Just another way to bring about NWO
Shame on US we exercised the our voice to stop Amnesty and they all don’t know what to do with us.
I bet the G8 is very upset and some would like to employ more fear to get us to comply!
Look how fast Going Green Planet made its enterance after their meeting of what to do AT the simple folks!
The problem is not Iraq. It’s Iran. Iran had a strategy even before the war to de-stabilize Iraq after the US won the war.
Okay, at long last, let’s admit that mistakes have been made in Iraq. The first and biggest mistake was to turn the administration of post-war Iraq over to the U. S. Department of State, which was run by Colin Powell. That was probably done by the president as a sop to the Democrats to show how “moderate” and intelligent we would be in fostering democracy there. But then Paul Bremer, Powell’s man in Baghdad, made decisions to disband the Iraqi army and to ban Baathists from participating in Iraq’s new government. Any other mistakes we ought to admit? Maybe that Powell and Armitage should have been replaced much sooner, and Rumsfeld kept as secretary of defense.
Who really cares...BUSH HAD NO CHOICE...Iraq/Saddamn was supporting terrorist world wide...many translated docs confirms al queda in Iraq....powell is turned into such a weenie...
Powell blew it with Gulf War I.
No one cares what Powell has to say... Republicans will see him as a backstabber, and Democrats will see him as a coward who played along when he “knew better”. A few years ago, Powell had immense credibility. Now, he’s a nobody.
I’m glad we invaded Iraq, and I’m glad Saddam and his regime are gone. Nothing keeps conflict in Iraq going more than the popular notion that the U.S. will soon leave.
Powell opposed going after the rest of the Iraqi army in the Persian Gulf war, he opposed aiding the Kurds and the marsh Arabs against Saddam’s regime, and he opposed the second gulf war. What policy does he think would work?
I originally did the black and white one, then a Freeper asked me to change it to red white and blue! Now youre asking me to change it back. :-)
Powell: The civil war will ultimately be resolved by a test of arms. It’s not going to be pretty to watch, but I don’t know any way to avoid it. It is happening now,” he said.
Here’s a list at Wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_wars
Algerian Civil War,
American Civil War,
Austrian Civil War, February 12 to February 16, 1934
Boshin War (Japan),
Cambodian Civil War ,
Carlist Wars,
Chinese Civil War,
Costa Rica Civil War, 1948
list of English civil wars
The Anarchy, (refers to the disorder during the reign of King Stephen of England)
Wars of the Roses,
English Civil War,
Finnish Civil War,
French Wars of Religion,
Genpei War (Japan),
Greek Civil War,
Guatemalan Civil War,
Hussite wars,
Overthrow of Sukarno (Indonesia),
Irish Civil War,
Irish Confederate Wars some parts of which were a civil war.
Jementah Civil War, 1879
Klang War; also known as Selangor Civil War,
Korean Civil War,
Later Three Kingdoms,
Lebanese Civil War,
Liberian Civil War,
Mozambican Civil War, see Rome General Peace Accords,
Nigerian Civil War,
Norwegian Civil War era,
Onin War (Japan),
Pakistani Civil War, 1971
Palestinian Civil Wars, 1947-48, 2006-
Paraguayan Civil War, 1947
Portuguese Civil War,
Rokosz of Lubomirski, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Rokosz of Zebrzydowski, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Roman Republican civil wars, List of Roman Republic and Empire Civil Wars
Romania had a brief civil war in 1989, after the fall of Nicolae Ceaucescu, between Communists and those against the former regime.
Russian Civil War,
Rwandan Civil War,
Salvadoran Civil War (El Salvador), see also History of El Salvador
Satsuma Rebellion (Japan),
Secret War(Laos)
Sengoku Period (Japan),
Spanish Civil War,
Taiping Civil War (China),
The Brothers’ Civil War, (The war between King Alfonso of Leon and King Sancho of Castile)
Three Kingdoms Period (This is something of an international conflict, but the Emperors of all three kingdoms claimed legitimate succession from the Han dynasty, thus making it a civil war)
Vietnamese Civil War,
Warring States Period (China), (this is not universally considered a civil war, but rather an international conflict. However each of the combatant states nominally acknowledged the authority of the Zhou kings of China, thus bringing them into one kingdom. This ended in 256 BCE, however this was a mere 35 years before the end of conflict)
War of Reform (Mexico)
Wars of Scottish Independence, late 13th century/early 14th century
Wars of the Three Kingdoms (England, Ireland, Scotland)involved a number of civil wars)
Yugoslav Wars including ethnic cleansing
Zulu Civil War,
Islamicists is a word for Islamic Extremists that are running around the world killing, killing and killing. They even kill their fellow Muslims.
We do not need to “kick the hell” out of the Iraqi Muslims that are fighting on our side against al Qaeda and Iran. They are dying and being maimed at the hands of the Islamicists.
Bush does not refer to these Nazi animals as “the religion of peace”. His reference there is to whichever Muslims are NOT the ones doing all the killing, killing and more killing.
I tried to warn Bush about Powell.
“not at this moment our allies”
Some are, some aren’t. Ask our troops. They know. Some are, some aren’t. To “kick the hell” out of the ones that are would be both treachorous and stupid.
Colin Powell was one of Bush’s first mistakes. Bush was not served well by this jerk and is paying for it now. The MSM will never report the truth about Powell( wonder why?)
Coward
So which Democrat is he the VP nominee for?
"I tried to avoid this war," Mr Powell said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.
Though I still think Powell is a coward
Powell needs to figure out where he stands ..
Powell is the same gutless wonder that stood by and let Scooter Libby take the fall when he knew all along it was his employee, Richard Armitage that was the leaker. I would not want Powell watching my back!
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