Colin Powell, my new hero, even though I m a Dem!

[bunnie3]

Just finished reading "most" of the leaked emails.  Geez, he hates both of them just as much as I do.  Refreshing!  Don t walk it back or apologize Colie.  I m still curious as to who these hackers are, and if The Tangerine Doughboy is in cahoots?  This is a job for Perry Mason.  I must continue to research......be back in a few days.

[dented146]

He nailed it!

[sabrelady]

Wonder if they will use this to persuade him to finally run. ( the Republican wet dream)

[dramamama611]

I'd actually consider giving him my vote.  (and I've never voted for a Republican in my life.)

[Rumpelstiltskin]

I used to ask everyone on my team at work to imagine their emails reprinted on the cover of the New York Post before sending.  At the time I thought I was overstating the risk in order to make a point.  

[madbrian]

From the web:

"Dance Like No One is Watching, Email Like It May One Day Be Read Aloud in a Deposition"

[kdogg36]

These emails were stolen from a private, law-abiding individual, so they're none of anyone else's business. I understand the urge to report on and discuss their content, but I think the better choice is to resist that temptation.

[PalJoey]

 

All of the leaked emails benefit Trump. All of the leaked emails benefit Russia. None of them benefit Clinton.

 

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Geez, he hates both of them just as much as I do.  Refreshing!

Why do you hate Hillary? I don't understand when reasonable-minded people say things like that, as if they are remotely comparable. One is demonstrably more hateful and dangerous than the other.

[HorseTears]

I don't understand how Powell has been able to maintain this largely untarnished image in the public eye.  He is just another war criminal.  The idea that he was somehow tricked by the Cheyney wing of the Bush administration is utter rot.  He bares all the responsibility for his careless, callous actions in the lead up to the Iraq War.  Voting for Obama and not being a total asshole in public do not suddenly give you dignity.  F*CK Colin Powell.  

[Liza's Headband]

^ delete your account 

[HorseTears]

Liza's Headband said: "^ delete your account "

 

Oh dear.  I see my error.  You're absolutely right.  

That should read "he bears all the responsibility for his careless, callous actions in the lead up to the Iraq War." 

 

[yankeefan7]

"The idea that he was somehow tricked by the Cheyney wing of the Bush administration is utter rot."

 

Glad to read that someone else does not believed Powell was tricked, thought he got away with that nonsense also.

[artscallion]

I've always felt Powell was the main person to blame for the war. I still remember his presentation to the American people, trying to convince them that it was justified. All smoke, mirrors and paper thin crap. But he convinced enough people to get the support of the country. Totally despise the man.

[Liza's Headband]

artscallion said: "I've always felt Powell was the main person to blame for the war. I still remember his presentation to the American people, trying to convince them that it was justified. All smoke, mirrors and paper thin crap. But he convinced enough people to get the support of the country. Totally despise the man."

 

The American people chose to trust a representative of our government, so they have no one to blame but themselves. Putting any faith in the legitimacy of a faux-Democracy leads nowhere as Snowden proved with his whistleblowing. 

[HorseTears]

artscallion said: "I've always felt Powell was the main person to blame for the war. I still remember his presentation to the American people, trying to convince them that it was justified. All smoke, mirrors and paper thin crap. But he convinced enough people to get the support of the country. Totally despise the man."

 

Not only that, but if you watch any of FRONTLINE's fantastic original reporting on the Iraq War and the birth of ISIS, you see that Colin Powell himself had a role in elevating the international stature and, thereby, power of Zarqawi when he was largely seen as a thug who had been rejected by Bin Laden.  And, this was all well before Zarqawi founded ISIS.  Powell mentioned Zarqawi 21 times in his infamous UN speech (though he now claims he doesn't even remember doing so - sure, Colin, sure).  Doing that gave Zarqawi instant international fame and allowed him to quickly gain a following in the Norther Iraq camp he'd set up.   

 

In fact, the Bush Administration had intelligence and and an exact location on Zarqawi in Northern Iraq before the US invasion and CIA intelligence strongly recommended taking him out right then and there, but the Bush administration, Powell included, willfully ignored that intelligence, because they had their eyes set on Saddam.  And we all know how that worked out for Iraq and for ISIS.  So, great work, Colin Powell, American hero.  

 

Just read this and try not to despise this man.  He's just as bad as Bush and Cheney.  Don't be fooled.  

 

[Roscoe]

For a bigoted mass murderer, Colin Powell sure has high standards of personal behavior -- condemning Bill Clinton for having "bimbos" no less.  

So given the newly released e-mails, does Hillary still think he's her friend?