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I tried to warn Bush against Iraq war: Powell
The Australian ^
| July 09, 2007
| Sarah Baxter
Posted on 07/08/2007 3:55:43 PM PDT by Enchante
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Powell continues to knife the President in the back, what else is new?
I have to wonder whether he really took a stand, or merely raised the well-known concerns about the aftermath.....we've previously heard his supposed "if you break it, you've bought it" comment, which is far far short of taking a strong stand against the invasion prior to March 2003. Did he really argue forcefully against going in at all, or is this merely another kind of revisionist history from the man who allowed "Plamegate" to explode far beyond all reason?? Did Powell allow Plamegate to go forward out of a vindictive streak against the WH?
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posted on
07/08/2007 3:55:44 PM PDT
by
Enchante
To: Enchante
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posted on
07/08/2007 3:57:24 PM PDT
by
ken21
To: Enchante
He should have resigned his position then if he felt that strongly about it.
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posted on
07/08/2007 3:57:45 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
To: Enchante
what else do you expect from a coward?
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posted on
07/08/2007 3:58:14 PM PDT
by
balch3
To: Enchante
Has he endorced Obama yet?
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posted on
07/08/2007 3:59:13 PM PDT
by
bnelson44
(http://www.appealforcourage.org)
To: Enchante
"I tried to avoid this war," Mr Powell said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado **************
Mr. Powell, you disgrace yourself.
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posted on
07/08/2007 3:59:33 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Enchante
"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." We had been occupying Iraq by air enforcing the No-Fly-Zone for 12 f'in years!
What did nitwit Powell want us to do--enforce the No-Fly-Zones in perpetuity?!
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:00:11 PM PDT
by
Cogadh na Sith
(Banning Bread and Circuses is the New Bread and Circuses....)
To: bnelson44
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:00:32 PM PDT
by
RDTF
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
To: Enchante
There was a time when Poweel could have been a latter day George Marshall, a giant in the international stage. He had the assets to make that work. Instead he elected to follow the path of Madeline Albright.
Perhaps he didn't elect it, after all. Perhaps as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he proved he was first a good polititian. Then he proved he could explain to the American public the policy handed to him by the policy makers. He could do it in a way to make them see it. Maybe he isn't really a visionary himself.
Maybe Bush isn't either. Bush, at least, sees that the Islamists want us all dead.
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:01:25 PM PDT
by
stevem
To: Enchante
To think that I actually respected that man once.
Mr. Powell, why don't you and Richard Armitage repair to a local lounge and toast each other for the paragons of virtue you think yourselves to be.
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:03:17 PM PDT
by
VR-21
To: Enchante
Powell is still p.o.’d because he got fired.
To: Enchante
Who cares what an “affirmative action ass wipe” has to opine about any topic.
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:07:12 PM PDT
by
Lewite
(Praise YAHWEH and Proclaim His Wonderful Name! Islam, the end time Beast-the harlot of Babylon.)
To: Enchante
Mr Powell has become increasingly outspoken about the level of violence in Iraq, which he believes is in a state of civil war. What Powell believes and what the reality is are two completely different things.
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:08:38 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
(If You’re Gonna Burn Our Flag, Wrap Yourself in It First /No Oil for Pacifists)
To: stevem
Bush, at least, sees that the Islamists want us all dead. Does he?.or does he constantly refer to it as a religion of peace?
Iraq is broke and the only way to fix it is to kick the hell out of it, act like occupiers and then rebuild it.
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:09:10 PM PDT
by
Kakaze
(Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
To: stevem
Bush, at least, sees that the Islamists want us all dead. The why fight a PC war and still claim they are a religion of peace?
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:10:28 PM PDT
by
Bommer
(Global Warming: The only warming phenomena that occurs in the Summer and ends in the Winter!)
To: VR-21
‘twasn’t all that long ago that many here on FR were calling for a Powell/Rice ticket in ‘08.
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:11:19 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(Dealing with politicians IS the War On Terror!)
To: Enchante
Powell’s opinion is late and irrelavant.
His statement is no different than the Libs saying Bush lied; therefore, we must cut and run.
To: Cogadh na Sith
“We had been occupying Iraq by air enforcing the No-Fly-Zone for 12 f’in years!”
Good point! We were not at peace before, and we will not be at peace again, until we have victory.
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:15:08 PM PDT
by
ChessExpert
(Reagan defeated the Russian communist empire, despite the Democratic party)
To: Enchante
"It is not a civil war that can be put down or solved by the armed forces of the United States." Nonsense.
We CAN put it down, but we won't.
Radioactive parking lots seldom fight civil wars.
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:15:54 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.)
To: Bommer; Kakaze
There is NO way President Bush could say “Islam is evil” and expect cooperation from Muslim allies, like the Iraqis working alongside our troops.
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posted on
07/08/2007 4:15:57 PM PDT
by
KJC1
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