Posted on 10/18/2021 11:40:43 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace on Monday remembered the late former Secretary of State Colin Powell and his controversial speech before the United Nations in 2003 about weapons of mass destruction before the Iraq War began.
"I think the low light of his career was in 2003, when he addressed the United Nations and made the case that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. He didn't want to make that speech," Wallace said during Fox's coverage of Powell's death. "He took a lot of pressure from people in the Bush 43 white house including vice president Cheney who was reported to have said 'look you got high approval ratings, you can use a few of those points to sell the war.' He was very skeptical of the case and actually went out to the C.I.A. and was briefed on it and asked questions and was not thrilled about it but got given order by his boss President Bush and Vice President Cheney and spoke before the U.N. and of course most of what he said about Saddam Hussein having chemical and biological weapons turned out not to be true."
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What he did to Scooter Libby is the main reason I’ve got a smile on my face. Only a truly evil, loathsome person would behave like Powell.
When Chris comes on I turn off Fox News.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2006/06/saddams_wmd_discovery_and_deni.html is an article that says that Colin Powell’s speech was amazing accurate. Why was he so ashamed of it?
To me, one of the basic tenets of fine military service is honor.
It generally doesn’t stop with fine military personnel when they leave the service.
What Colin Powell did was dishonorable. Up until that point, I had maintained a degree (even after all the other things he had done to that point) some semblance of respect.
In my mind, I couldn’t think of any explanation that would dispose honorably of that behavior on his part, and I lost all respect.
Honor and Respect are two qualities that can take so many years in building, but be torn down in a single day.
Colin Powell did just that.
Powell also had a part in burying the My Lai story. The reason that no senior officer ended up in the dock was largely because of his report as G-3 of the Americal Division in 1968.
It’s pretty rich for Colin Powell to be worried about ‘his reputation’ when he had already established a dubious one while still only a major.
https://edwardrynearson.wordpress.com/behind-colin-powells-legend-the-my-lai-massacre/
Powell had no reputation to protect.
I did not know that. I am going to check that angle out.
Chris, if he didn't believe it and didn't resign but made the speech anyway, then he was a man of very low character but you don't have the courage to say that because he was black, so you talk out of both sides of your mouth at the same time.
Oh, and BTW, just because they didn't find the weapons doesn't mean they didn't exist.
In other words, he was willing to lie to protect his reputation.
He reminds me of the General in “Mars Attacks” picked to meet the Martians in the desert.
As the Chairman, JCOS he was an Affirmative Action hire.
I doubt that a white person with the same accomplishments would have been promoted up the ranks like him.
He was no Chappie James. That man was the real deal.
Well at least Colin, wasn't 'light in the loafers' like the Mars Attacks General was.
When push came to shove he chose the first black communist over the country!!!!
Saddam had chemical weapons Chris...
In other words, the White Man made him do it.
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