How far has John McCain fallen...

I know of no reason for Powell to be considered a timid soldier. He served at least two tours in Vietnam that i recall, and possibly a third. He served in the field and was wounded when he stepped on a primitive VC booby trap. Powell's military doctrine was to bring overwhelming force--which puts him in the same club as Patton, Hodges, Bradley and Eisenhower. I'd say this is yet another case of Whackeye talking out of his ass.

It's amazing how irrelevant a once influential man can become in only four years.

Joe Lieberman is no Colin Powell.

You're right, he's far more relevant.

John Sununu was interviewed yesterday and according to him, Powell is endorsing Obama because they are both black.

Published on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 by Common Dreams

Colin Powell: Another War Criminal Cashes In
by Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis

One could be forgiven for thinking there's anything honorable or honest about Colin Powell. For more than two decades now the Washington media has portrayed the former Secretary of State as something of a real life action hero, a reluctant warrior whose greatest fault – should they deign to mention any – was just being too darn loyal to a guy named George and his buddy Dick. What you might have missed is that Powell is a war criminal in his own right, one who in more than four decades of “public service” helped kill people from Vietnam to Panama to Iraq who never posed a threat to America. But don't just take some anti-war activists' word for it: Powell will proudly tell you as much, so long as he can make a buck from doing it in a book.

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/05-7

I know of no reason for Powell to be considered a timid soldier. He served at least two tours in Vietnam that i recall, and possibly a third.

Behind Colin Powell's Legend -- My Lai

By Robert Parry & Norman Solomon

On March 16, 1968, a bloodied unit of the Americal division stormed into a hamlet known as My Lai 4. With military helicopters circling overhead, revenge-seeking American soldiers rousted Vietnamese civilians -- mostly old men, women and children -- from their thatched huts and herded them into the village's irrigation ditches.

As the round-up continued, some Americans raped the girls. Then, under orders from junior officers on the ground, soldiers began emptying their M-16s into the terrified peasants. Some parents desperately used their bodies to try to shield their children from the bullets. Soldiers stepped among the corpses to finish off the wounded.

The slaughter raged for four hours. A total of 347 Vietnamese, including babies, died in the carnage that would stain the reputation of the U.S. Army. But there also were American heroes that day in My Lai. Some soldiers refused to obey the direct orders to kill.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/colin3.html

In part this is by his design, as unlike other former presidents he seems to be content in retirement and unwilling to intrude his opinions on the governance of another person who has shared the weight of office.