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Monday, August 29. 2011

"If you break it, you own it"

General Colin Powell's famous remark about foreign intervention, "If you break it, you own it", also applies to the truth. Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, in detail, exposes the blaring untruths by Colin Powell regarding so-called PlameGate, its damage to the Bush White House, and unfair prosecution of Scooter Libby. Colin Powell won't own up to owning his complicity.
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From Day One, I've never doubted that Powell was the real villain of PlameGate because he knew who the leaker was and yet said nothing while the FBI and Dept. of Justice waged their clandestine war against the President and the White House. What I've never understood was Powell's motive for what he did. Was it because he held a grudge against the White House for making him the point man (and the eventual fall guy) on WMDs in Iraq, which turned out to be such a PR disaster? In the end, wasn't this a supreme intelligence failure for which the blame rightly belongs with the CIA? The WH, for its own reasons, was all too eager to believe the mostly faulty intelligence it was presented, but why would Powell not blame and hold a grudge against the folks at Langley who supplied the bad intelligence to start with?
#1 Agent Cooper on 2011-08-29 19:53 (Reply)
I never was a Powell fan - he seemed to me that he was a political chameleon - what ever was handy or convenient politics. And I never cared for his eventual dismissal of My Lai as "shit happens".

I hate to say this, but I think that Powell did, and continues to, use the "I was just following orders" shtick without saying so in plain language with respect to his service under G.W.

Just my opinion.
#2 Tom Francis on 2011-08-29 20:03 (Reply)
I am actually saddened by this. I had fond feelings for the General after his service in the 1st Gulf War. But perhaps he is, under it all, just a politician. I don't believe one needs to be a conservative to be a patriot(Pat Tillman). But honesty and sacrifice are a must.
#3 BrianInWisconsin on 2011-08-29 20:08 (Reply)
He was an interesting possible for prez at one time..........
but ya know Time Wounds all Heals.....
#4 dorf on 2011-08-29 20:19 (Reply)
The guy was never more than a cardboard cutout. Behind the facade was a disloyal, self-important turd.

Oh. And he's a republican. Ya right.
#5 ccoffer on 2011-08-29 20:56 (Reply)
I'm glad to hear that America owns Japan and Germany. Has Powell told them?
#6 PacRim Jim (Link) on 2011-08-30 00:13 (Reply)
Remember during the 2000 election, the distance powell put between himself and Pres. Bush? Remember Cheney, Rice, I think even Rumsfeld, found their way to the Ranch, were seen publicly supporting Bush? Powell showed up once and said let's wait and see what happens, I'm not on anyone's side in this fight. Weak man, really think he was another product of affirmative action and from that time (2000)had no use for him. Often wondered how many people he got killed in Vietnam. Wishy washy officers in a war zone ALWAYS get people killed.
#7 J on 2011-08-30 13:31 (Reply)
I watched the NBC DATELINE interview of former VP Dick Cheney on TV last night. Although I don't always agree with Cheney's policy views, once again I was greatly impressed by this man. He offers such a huge contrast with the POTUS Obama: he can speak in full sentences without notes (!), unlike the supposedly eloquent and oratorically gifted Obama who finds it embarrassingly difficult to string together 4th-grade level words to form even a coherent sentence. The interviewer did her best to find controversy where there was none in Cheney's new book, suggesting that his writing contradicted George Bush's earlier book. In each instance Cheney's answer seemed very plausible to me, and I left convinced there was no real contradiction in the remembrances of the two men.
#8 Agent Cooper on 2011-08-30 14:00 (Reply)

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