running the My Lai massacre cover up.

I have never understood why anyone respects him.

He has demonstrated not only his willingness to associate with war criminals and neocon marketeers; but he took even further steps by consciously LYING us in to a devastating invasion of Iraq that cost TRILLIONS, thousands of lives and destroyed human futures, and unleashed crimes against humanity that we will ALL bare the shame for for generations to come.
The Middle East today is a result of his cowardice act 15 years ago.
He lost his "hero status" for the rest of his time. Yes...a mild mannered, seemingly personable republican....but nothing more in my book. Nothing more.

Professionals play the cards they're dealt. You have the luxury of imagining now that you'd be too high-minded to do your job, but it's quite likely that in different circumstances you would feel obligations and responsibilities, as well as a belief in important goals, that are missing now.

Correct. Hindsight is always 20-20, unless you watch fox, msnbc or listen to right wing radio, etc.
Fact is, he KNEW it was a lie, and he put that lie out there, knowing full well the consequences. Perhaps he expected a different result...like we'd be welcomed as liberators, or it would be over in a number of days, etc. He knew full well he had crossed the line. Same as the young soldiers who did the work in the camps.
No telling how I might have decided. I would hope I would have refused to spread a lie such as he did, presuming I had the same vision he had at the time.
He owns that choice. Nobody had a gun to his head...only his own ambitions.

Somehow in your "analysis" you kind of misplaced the...planet, our strategic goals under the current administration, Powell's own duty to his commander in chief and to perform the duties he assumed with his positions, including joining the military as a young man long before becoming a four-star general, Chair of the Joint Chiefs, SoS, etc.

Only fools would imagine that or that the vast majority of wars are justified by the standards of those who die in them, and only fools would expect generals to suddenly turn into sappy wimps saying, "I can't follow orders, I just can't! It's not necessary for soldiers to die!" Our own son was on an aircraft carrier, but even at that age and wanting to put off adulthood he wasn't a fraction that silly.

Btw, our son KNEW the excuse for going to war was a lie because his mother did her duty and told him. How'd I know? The way anyone in those days knew: we listened to the many retired top generals, retired heads of intelligence agencies, retired experts in many fields who stepped up and explained why.

And also some true heroes who weren't retired and sacrificed their careers to call out the lies.

It wasn't exactly a secret.

Or anyone else from that god awful criminal administration.

Peace

She is giddy with another anti Hillary story, pushing Powell's "pin it on me' statement.

#Doublestandard

I'm going to start using that - LIBERALLY! Particularly for calling out Andrea Mitchell. I must tweet-scold her on almost a daily basis by now!

I'd like to see her and Petraeus called to account before Powell, and Sec. Clinton has already been called to account, ad nauseum, over and over again.

I haven't heard Rice questioned about this issue, though I remember her head shaking testimony that 'I believe it was called 'Bin Laden determined to strike in the US' '. That's Republican national security concerns and performance, summed up in a neat little nutshell. 9/11/01 vs 9/11/12, and they have the gall to run on it.

that he was posting it today.

We all need to provide backup. Twitter is fast becoming my new favorite. But ONE person tweeting a complaint won't have much of an impact. We need swarms of 'em!

Numbers can be your friend.

But, of course, it won't.

differently.. and I am sure he said something about the email.. you can just almost take it to the bank

imagine a man who sent so many to die is himself a coward.

He was full of shit then, and I don't see anything having changed since then.