Whoops. That's Mcclellan.
Posted on 07/08/2007 3:55:43 PM PDT by Enchante
Whoops. In any case.
Caesar was stabbed, in the end, by one of his closest and most loyal friends, Brutus. And George Bush was betrayed throughout the course of the entire Fitzgerald inquisition by his one time friend and close confidant, Colin Powell, who knew all along the involvement of Richard Armitage, and chose to keep quiet. Loyalty runs between many extremes.
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With Colin Powell, as with Mr. Armitage, loyalty has finally gone the way of the Model-T. And sadly, Mr. Powell's damage will be enshrined forever by the left in what appears to be their longest running hit piece of modern times. Et tu, Colin?
is this the same powell who made the best case i have seen yet for going to war with iraq before the UN securtiz councilz??????
What a disappointment Powell turned out to be.
Instead of whining like he is now doing, where is his “Military Expertise” in winning this? Imagine Patton, Bradley or even Eisenhower during the Battle of the Bulge saying in the media, “Well, I tried to warn Roosevelt about Bastogne.”
Perhaps it is time retired General Powell explained just what role then Major Colin Powell played in the early cover-up of the My Lai massacre. Maybe some former Army officer will come forward and tell us “Well, I tried to warn the Major on covering that up.”
Whoops. That's Mcclellan.
He should have been taking part in much, much better planning and execution, for post-invasion operations.
Instead, what did he think is role was, "Secretary of Whining?"
Yikes missed that moment. Are now the Rudy crew?
“I really hate the feeling I keep getting that the powers to be are all in bed togather and have been playing good cop - bad cop with the American people!”
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Kinda like a “ruling class”, eh?
Probably. That's what Demos have silently supported since the cease-fire in the Gulf War. It looks tough, but it's not really "war."
In late 1998, shortly after Clinton started bombing to enforce the No-fly zone conveniently at the time he admitted his perjury in the Jones deposition, the Demos became oh-so worried about troop morale. I will never forget the House debate on the articles of impeachment in late December, and how they acted as if considering impeaching the President while the country was "at war" was dangerously close to treasonous.
Powell served two tours of duty in Vietnam, was a battalion commander in Korea and was the recipient of numerous U.S. military decorations including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Bronze Star Medal, and the Purple Heart. You may not like him, but he is anything but a coward.
*I* created that photoshopped image years ago.
*I* am Spartacus.
Almost always actions speak louder than words. There is a good deal of PC nonsense out there in every venue on many, many issues. Regarding propaganda, Bush can’t pull it off because even if he had the press on his side, which he doesn’t, he talks in such tortured language. Still I have a sense that he knows he has a job to do fighting terrorists and will do it aas long as the strings are his to pull.
Proving just how smart he is.
The simple truth is that the iraqis themselves are the failure. Anyone who can’t secure and defend their own country doesn’t deserve that country. The BIG problem is their tribalism. That old movie : Lawrence of Arabia tells the story well. The yammering, yelling tribes in the damascus city hall vs the coherent british army.
The arabs were a potent force 900 years ago, terrorism isn’t going to bring back that creative glory they evinced so long ago. Instead, their “culture of death” is an admission of failure as an islamic culture, as tribal people.
Too bad, they preserved greek learning thru europe’s dark ages, gave the world algebra, star names, even were working on corporate law structure around 1000AD; now reduced to suicide belt/car bombers as heroes. Too bad, a once creative and USEFUL people now reduced to adoring sick criminals as heroes, so sad...
No wonder then that they hate US/Israel, we are the DOERS, the inventors, the ones moving ahead, they have been left behind in the dust, anger and self-loathing being their only “food”, so sad....
Powell is the most classic Passive-aggressive guy I ever saw!!!
And he'd be the first to tell you there are over 10 million well armed insurgents in Baghdad alone. We need more men....lots more men.
40 acres and a mule can turn a man’s head.
This is the one area I still have faith in Dubya.
But to fight it properly..to win it will require some horrible actions, decisions I'd wish on no ones soul.
“Bush, at least, sees that the Islamists want us all dead.”
Then he should fight the war with the intention to kill each and every one of them instead of pussyfooting around with this asinine “rules of engagement” that only benefit the enemy. And while he is at it he should also deny entry into this country of Muslims.
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