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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:34 PM
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Ex-aide: Colin Powell was ‘manipulated’ by Cheney into justifying Iraq war
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/18/ex-aide-colin-powell-was-manipulated-by-cheney-into-justifying-iraq-war/

By Sahil Kapur
Friday, February 18th, 2011 -- 9:40 am

WASHINGTON – Colin Powell's ex-chief of staff said Thursday the former Secretary of State was lied to and manipulated by Vice President Dick Cheney into justifying the US invasion of Iraq.

The primary justifications offered by the Bush administration for invading Iraq were that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and had possible links to Al-Qaeda. Both turned out to be false.

Iraqi defector "Curveball," ostensibly a source corroborating Hussein's biological and chemical weapons program, this week admitted he knowingly concocted the story in an effort to get rid of the dictator.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:35 PM
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1. Fuck Powell.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:40 PM
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7. Fuck all of them
and send them to the Hague for war crimes
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:40 PM
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9. I support that.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 04:02 PM
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23. children get manipulated. Animals. People who are impaired or
abused. Four star generals? Not so much. Powell is a war criminal and always will be. fuck him indeed.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 04:24 PM
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25. Yep
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:35 PM
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2. bullshit. it was powell's job to know the truth.
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:42 PM
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12. Hey, many of us in jobs far more humble and less-"inside the Beltway" knew it.
All you had to do was some research. ALL you had to do was read ever so slightly beyond the stuff you were furnished and force-fed, colin. ALL you had to do was seek out a second opinion - NO, A REAL SECOND OPINION. I don't mean strolling down the hall from cheney's office and asking scooter libby or david addington or paul wolfowitz about it. An INDEPENDENT second opinion. There were lots of them out there. We certainly found them, with far fewer tools and connections and "access" than you had.

:nopity:
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 04:00 PM
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21. rec.....they are running from the truth...the lot
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:38 PM
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3. I don't buy this too-late ass-covering by Colin.
Any fool watching him at the UN can clearly see that he KNOWS what he's saying is utter crap.
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:59 PM
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19. First AssCrack and now Powell trying to invent excuses
Must be part of the BFEE Trilogy "Jeb Bush Rising"
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:38 PM
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4. Bwahahahahah! Ahemsputtercough. HE IS A LYING TRAITOR.
Edited on Fri Feb-18-11 03:38 PM by WinkyDink
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Proud Liberal Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:39 PM
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5. Manipulated or not
Edited on Fri Feb-18-11 03:40 PM by Proud Liberal Dem
Powell's would-be "Adlai Stevenson"-like moment at UN in February 2003 will still haunt him for the rest of his life. Just because Bush/Cheney wanted to go into Iraq so badly doesn't mean that he had to turn off his critical thinking skills at their request. Furthermore, if he really didn't believe in what he was saying or what Bush/Cheney wanted to do, a "protest resignation" might've been very powerful in stopping movement towards the invasion IMHO and preventing the subsequent catastrophe. Unfortunately, Powell chose.........poorly.
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snappyturtle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:49 PM
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16. Yes. Yes. Yes. nt
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:39 PM
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6. Poor Colin, just an innocent bystander.
He knew and he lied his ass off.
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Boswell Donating Member (257 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:55 PM
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18. just like he did in 'Nam
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 04:00 PM
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20. That's right.
Just like that.
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:40 PM
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8. Bull. Shit. If you want rehabilitation, it's time to sing about EVERYTHING in a court of law.
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:41 PM
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10. So suddenly the "omniscient" ones are conveniently duped.
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peace13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:42 PM
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11. Does he think manipulated =blackmailed.
That I would believe. You knew they had something on the guy at the time. His stammering and weird body language. Sorry, Powell did the country wrong of his own choosing.
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:43 PM
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13. yeah, well he better make amends for the blood on his hands
he shit on the uniform too

he better get busy
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somone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:45 PM
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14. Poor gullible inexperienced low-ranking official
Edited on Fri Feb-18-11 03:59 PM by somone
so unfamiliar with life and politics


President Reagan with National Security Advisor Colin Powell
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Malikshah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:48 PM
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15. Did he hold a gun to his head or threaten his family? If not-- Colin's
got no excuse.

Suck it up and deal, you lying sack of excrement.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:52 PM
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17. And his explanation for whitewashing the My Lai massacre?
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 04:01 PM
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22. Colin Powell is a weak man.
If he never comes clean about the crimes of the Cheney admin he will die a weak man.
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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 04:17 PM
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24. Bullshit. He was privy to all the info we were and more.
If he was duped it was willful.
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