[swarthyguy]

All Hail the Arabs!

[SJackson]

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Clearly Secretary Powell sings to an Arab drummer when he's on Al Jazeera.

[freedom9]

There's considerable difference between intentional, deliberate and accidental, regrettable.

[Tom Jefferson]

Powell represents the views of the State Department, which are most often not the views of the administration. The State Department envisions a very different world for America - one in which I don't want to live - than the one envisioned by President Bush and the administration. So it has been for a long time. The State Department opposed Ronald Reagan's activities in the Cold War, opposed Kennedy's Cuba embargo,etc.

[yonif]

The title speaks for itself.

[DoughtyOne]

Interviewed on the Arabic television station Al-Jazeera on June 23, 2003, Powell was asked, "Can you explain the difference you see between legitimate resistance and terrorism in the Middle East?" Powell replied by saying that the recent Palestinian Arab drive-by shooting in which a 7 year-old girl was murdered "is terrorism." He then added: "The same thing happens on the other side when the response comes and innocent people lose their lives, young people on the Palestinian side."

At one time I really liked Powell.  Over the years I have come to see a completely different side of the man.  He is unfit to hold the office of Secretary of State.

Does he also seek to equate collateral damage during our military efforts to be terrorism?  Mr. Powell, place you resignation on the desk by morning.