Bush Whore Powell on Daily Show still schilling for Bush!

John Stewart treated Powell most deferentially but made it clear he didn't buy his story. John even cut Powell off when he tried to go into his spin. John would be a great diplomat. He knows how to handle questions and spin! Bravo for John and I was disgusted with Powell. He clung to the same old intelligence story and talked about recent dinners with Bush. Ugh. The only way he could redeem himself would be to tell the truth and though retired, he doesn't have the courage of Richrd Clark or Treasurey Sec. O'Neill. What a shame.He is a coward after all!

along with Bush, Cheney, Rummy and what's her name....the new Sec of State

about the best intelligence for the rest of his life. I thought John could/should have been a lot tougher on him. Having gone to the UN with his vial of talcum powder or whatever he is stuck now i think. In his mind the only way to maintain what he thinks of as his credibility is to continue with the same lies about how Bush listened to everyone and tried his best to avert war. He is in a spider hole, i think. F colin powell. Remeber when he came out and hugged bush for the cameras while the 2000 election was still in the process of being stolen. He knew what crooks they were, but he still went along, lending his support to fascism in the USA. I wonder if he holds stock in united defense or other defense contractors like poppy bush? A vietnam vet shouldn't have helped send those kids into a quagmire. And stewart refered to the whole iraq debacle as spilt milk? C'mon John. He also agreed that what's done is done and the goal now must be to defeat the insurgency. Fine, how long will that take since the insurgency seems to be getting stronger everyday? And then when we do eventually pull out what happens when the mullahs are elected or sieze power. I suppose John was just glad to have such a heavy weight guest as the former sec of state, but he should have asked some tougher questions, even if powell would have just repeated the some old tired talkig points.

Partial video is here
http://www.dembloggers.com/story/2005/6/8/2131/53319

Welcome to DU.

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but how many posts do i need before you folks'll stop saying welcome to du?
I've been reading here a long time, but did most of my posting at kos until recently. It makes me feel like a newb, which i ain't. peace.

"Not a newbie so don't annoy me by saying hello"

Something like that.

Some of us never read kos so how would we know? Anything under 100 makes you relatively new to DU (as a poster at least).

In the meantime, be gracious about it. Kos is a different site so if you've posted for a long time there it has nothing to do with your newbieness here.

Peace back at you.

didn't mean to be ungracious.
Welcome to du lady lib:)

& Jon let him get away with it. Just watched it, can't stay up that late so I tape it & watch it in the AM. BTW, it is Jon, not John.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

to remind Colin that in 2001 he himself had said, in a trip to the Far East, that Saddam Hussein was no threat and was contained, so that he lacked the capacity to become a threat.

As for the Downing Street Memo, why did John not read this paragraph to Colin:
(Italics mine.)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607_2,00.html

The Foreign Secretary said he would discuss this with Colin Powell this week. It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran. We should work up a plan for an ultimatum to Saddam to allow back in the UN weapons inspectors. This would also help with the legal justification for the use of force.

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Going to the UN was not an effort to avoid going to war, but just another planned and obligatory way station on the road to the invasion of Iraq. To paraphrase White House Chief of Staff Andy Card--part of the rollout of the product--"The Iraq War".....John!

I don't know about that, but being on the BOD of AOL/TWX and having his son head up the FCC brought him riches and rewards. Media consolidation and concentration to line their pockets at the expense of consumers and free press.

CLINTON! Who actually is prez now, Powell?????????

How desperate does a Republican have to be to evoke Clinton in a bid for credibility. Then again, what was Powell doing there anyway? How long ago was he scheduled to come on and defend the Bush administration from the DSM?

because they are so pathetic and their lies keep coming undone all around them.

I was also waiting for John to bring up the UN incident where powell throws up the prepared fake intelligence and says, "I'm not reading this bullcrap", and then does it anyway. You know, just for clarification.

Jon clearly felt out of his depth with Mr. Powell, but asked tough questions anyway.

I admired the way he went after the "intelligence failure". He got Colin Powell to admit that there were people there said Curveball was not trustworthy, that those voices just didn't reach his ears. That is a clear indication of a DoD scrub machine in my opinion.

The dissenting voices were there, but they didn't get to the final decision makers, therefore they didn't get to the Congress and didn't come across in our argument to the U.N.

He as much as asked Powell if he was being played for a fool with the "that wasn't a vial of freedom powder" statement.

Stewart knew that Powell had a lot of inside information that he would never in his life have access to - and he clearly felt intimidated by that fact.

Powell was not and WILL NEVER backtrack on his support for the case for this war - just getting him to qualify the Curveball info was huge, in my opinion.

I've heard her illness is the only thing standing in the way of a Powell candidacy. The media has McCained Powell...it's always a love fest.

damage control on the DSM. Guess they think he still has some credibility with somebody. He wasn't selling a book. Could it be that he will be their surprise candidate for '08? Got to start polishing the image now.