@scooby-doo cv,
scooby-doo;28915 wrote:you wouldnt be saying that if he was a democrat.
And you know that's the god's honest truth.
Powell had the most credibility, bar none...he almost ran for the presidency, against Bush...and would have won, hands down. Are you kidding? It would have been shades of Eisenhower, all over again. When he was picked to be Bush's Secretary of State, he brought instant prestige to the administration.
Now we find out that, in the rush to war, his gentle pleas for caution, and prudence were thrown out and bowled over by the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz cartel, who were hellbent to go to war with Iraq...
Powell, in the ultimate betrayal, was, essentially, forced to present lies and deceit, and trumped up documents before the UN, making a case for war.
And now that we see, the main excuse for going to war, Saddam having WMD, was a sham...a falsehood...then the premise for war changed to instituting a democracy, on a people who have been used to at least a partial theocracy for centuries.
Powell became a casualty of the conspiracy....an honest man, made the fool, by desperately trying to be a team player for a team willing to cheat, to lie, to win.
Powell lost any prestige he had....he has become a broken, bitter man...with a story, that one day, may be told, in its' entirety, in an effort to clear his name and his conscience, to the administration's chagrin, and horror.
