Smoking!! Ex-Powell Aide says Powell the "only sane" person in W's admin

http://nytimes.com/2005/12/24/politics/24wilkerson.html?hp

from the article:The speaker is Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff for Colin Powell.

"What I saw was a cabal between the vice president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made," Mr. Wilkerson said in a well-publicized speech at the New America Foundation in October. "And you've got a president who is not versed in international relations and not too much interested in them either," he added in the speech.


It was an embittering experience for everyone at the State Department, Mr. Wilkerson says, to be saddled with presenting what turned out to be false information at the United Nations, and also to have been sidelined in the running of postwar Iraq by the Pentagon. "When I rationalize for myself not resigning, I did it by saying, 'This is the only sane member of this administration,' " Mr. Wilkerson said of Mr. Powell.

Think anyone will notice except us?

Now he's just another dupe of the Bush administration.

sane people don't make a case to send American soldiers into harms way when they know the information to be flawed.Sorry CP you fucked up and lost all credibility

Wasn't he somehow involved with a snafu in Vietnam?

As a young officer, he was sent out onto TV shows to stand up for Lt. Calley's little massacre, and he did it with all the rectitude of the "decent" military man. He knew he was whitewashing war crimes, and he did it with all the clear-eyed rectitude he could.

He sold his soul for advancement long ago, and he's a fool. The man is also simply not that smart.

They might have just gone ahead and nuked Bagdad and Tehran.

:shrug:

he also went along with everything they did. Plus he doesn't mind spying on his fellow Americans.

...Desert Storm Syndrome, and all other high profile issues. His job was to minimize the damage or try to hide it.

And to think he might have once been a presidential candidate.................

There's "certifiable" and then there's "totally over the edge".

We're talking theme and variation, not black and white.

question, the people filming him tried to cut it off and pretend their were technical difficulties so he wouldn't have to answer the question and he angrily defied them and asked them to continue shooting so he could answer the question? There was an online clip of it somewhere. Whether he is the most sane, hard to say. Whether he has a conscious eating at him, clearly he has.

decided to film a palm tree.

Anyone have it? Know where I could find it? That one made me laugh....

http://media-cyber.law.harvard.edu/blogs/mov/powell/05-16-04-mtp-colin-1.mov

Transcript:

EMILY MILLER, STATE DEPARTMENT PRESS AIDE: You're off.

SECRETARY POWELL: I am not off.

EMILY MILLER, PRESS AIDE: No. They can't use it, they're editing it.

SECRETARY POWELL: He's still asking the questions.

EMILY MILLER, PRESS AIDE: He was not ...

SECRETARY POWELL: Tim, I am sorry I lost you.

MR. RUSSERT: I am right here Mr. Secretary. I would hope they would put you back on camera. I don't know who did that.

EMILY MILLER, PRESS AIDE: He was going to go for another five minutes.

SECRETARY POWELL: We've really scre...

MR. RUSSERT: I think that was one of your staff Mr. Secretary. I don't think that's appropriate.

SECRETARY POWELL: Emily, get out of the way. Bring the camera back please. (Camera returns to the interview subject) I think we're back on Tim, go ahead with your last question.

much comfort.

How "sane" is it to carry water and prostitute yourself in front of the UN?

If Colon Bowell is "the only sane one" in this cabal, then FSM help us all!

it's really too too late to say you're sorry

Because that trashes his credibility and makes him look like he just worships his boss, who by the way, was responsible for covering up the May Lai massacre.

You CAN'T shake hands with the DEVIL and then say you're only kidding.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/21/colin-powell-criticizes-spying-program/

“My own judgment is that — it didn’t seem to me, anyway, that it would have been that hard to go and get the warrants . And even in the case of an emergency, you go and do it . The law provides for that. And three days later, you let the court know what you have done, and deal with it that way.” From an interview with George Stephanopoulos featured on ABC’s “Nightline.” December 21, 2005 12:33 am | Comment (42)

Please, God, may be all come to understand what Mr. Wilkson understands:



Veterans are not heroes - what does "Thank you for your service" mean? - thank you for behaving like a beast when asked to use force for the state?

I understand that many join the military for all the right reasons and that that impulse should be respected and so should returning vets whoever they are, whatever they have done.

I will respect, but will not honor veterans.

That is crazy, not sane.

but that was lost with his rotten son working in the government at the same time. Any move Powell might have made had to be considered in the light of what his actions might do to his son't career.
The above gives Powell the benefit of the doubt but I wanted to throw it out there.

This man was no hero; this man threw away his reputation sanctifying the acts of some of the most wicked and grotesque liars and thieves to ever have power in this country. Did he think they'd let him ascend to power after being a good servant? Did he think he'd get to drink from the font of plenty if he enabled them? Did he really secretly hate the inferiors of the world and buy into the extreme selfishness of Republican privilege?

He knowingly lied to bring his country into war against a sovereign nation; this man is a despicable asshole and history will echo disgust of him. His public career is over now, and his only hope for redemption is blowing the whistle on these fiends. Being such a good little soldierbot, though, he won't.

Of what good is he to the human race?

to bail out...

:evilgrin:
rocknation

And may want to set the record straight so history can think of him as more than b***'s dupe. IMHO

an insanity plea - it would be better than deliberately lying and compromizing as he did. Bo badge of honor from me. Not Powell, not McCain - not any of the made up media "heroes" MSM picks from W's anus.

you're bound to get shit all over yourself.

Sorry, but Powell chose to dance the demon waltz for greedy, self-centered reasons. I think he should have come forward with the truth instead of being a so-called "team player".

I don't wish any ill towards him, but I really have no sympathy for his big mistake.