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Colin Powell

Saturday, May 12 at 12:01 PM

Grant D. Cyrus of Boulder writes:

I can’t say often enough how much I respect Colin Powell for having left the Bush Administration after recognizing he’d been deceived about the Iraq war. He was a loyal soldier as well in that he never disrespected his commander in chief, bravo sir I salute you. On the other hand if I had an opportunity and was in a position to I would at this point ask him to vigorously rejoin the debate and bring some kind of Centrist solutions to our Geopolitical problems. Even with the terrible mistake of convincing the country to go to war under false pretense Secretary Powell remains our most credible and trusted diplomat. Hopefully the next administration can somehow woo him in the peace and reconstructive era and effort to come in the Middle East. Gracias.

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Grant Cyrus -

Colin Powell went before the world and presented bogus evidence. He probably had some doubts about the evidence, and likely had doubts about the conclusion, that invading Iraq was a good idea.

The only shred of dignity left this man is that he has the sense NOT to go before the world again. If only it were true for Wolfowitz.

Thanks, but no one in their right mind would give this man the keys again.

moron is now Con Mor

Posted by Con Mor on May 12, 2007 01:40 PM

Colin Powell is forever disgraced by his initial support for Bush's war in Iraq. He was smart enough to know how shakey the evidence was about WMDs. But he put loyalty to his party above his duty to his country, and he refused to ask the hard questions that should have been asked about the intelligence. He will always bear a major share of the blame for the foreign policy catastrophe in Iraq.

Posted by Docjay on May 13, 2007 09:20 AM

Powell and Tenet could have been national heroes by telling the truth in 2002. Powell knew the evidence was not legitimate, yet went to the UN to lie anyway. If these two craven sycophants had the stones to call a spade a spade, we would not be in a quagmire debating the effectiveness of a surge, questioning Americans patriotism because they see an inept administration demanding a free pass for their mistakes.

Posted by Reid Fleming on May 14, 2007 10:29 AM