Colin Powell called Dick Cheney and daughter ‘idiots’ and lambasted their book

[DonViejo]

DAVID FERGUSON
14 SEP 2016 AT 17:57 ET


Former Secretary of State Colin Powell ripped former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz as “idiots” in a private email exchange.

BuzzFeed News reported Wednesday that among the hacked emails from Colin Powell’s account was scathing criticism of his former Bush administration colleague.

In fall of 2015, Dick and Liz Cheney co-authored the book Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America, part of Liz Cheney’s run-up to campaigning to represent the state of Wyoming in Congress.

Powell — in an email to Pres. Ronald Reagan’s former chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein — said of the Cheneys “They are idiots and spent force peddling a book that ain’t going nowhere.” In another email, Duberstein said, “See acknowledgment in Cheney’s new book. Scary.” Powell replied, “Scary and the usual suspects. Will pass without a trace with most Americans.”

In Exceptional, the former vice president took swipes at Pres. Barack Obama, calling him “the worst president in my lifetime.” He also took on former Pres. Jimmy Carter’s legacy as a means of attacking Obama, writing, “I used to have significant criticism of Jimmy Carter, but compared to Barack Obama and the damage he is doing to the nation — it’s a tragedy, a real tragedy, and we are going to pay a hell of a price just trying to dig out from under his presidency.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/colin-powell-called-dick-cheney-and-daughter-idiots-and-lambasted-their-book/

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Resentment for having to lie about WMD's maybe .

[lewebley3]

13. Powel shouldn't throw stones at anyone He lied the country into War

[orpupilofnature57]

15. He helped along with the rest of the world except for a few brave souls , Congress, M$M, all the

MIC Vermont, it was The royal scam, part of Shrub and the redistribution of wealth & power .

[Gabi Hayes]

16. see the glory.....

[orpupilofnature57]

18. Love it !!!!!!!

Thanks, saw them do it a few years ago, Great as ever .

[lewebley3]

17. Powell complained at the time of his statements that the evidence was weak: but lied

anyway.

[orpupilofnature57]

19. That's the Truth, and unlike most of those vipers, you could tell he was lying .

[lewebley3]

20. No, at the time I didn't know: but the reports after by staff said Powell was

very doubt of what he was saying was provable. Had he been
strong and stood up for himself; we could have stopped a war:

[cstanleytech]

21. Well the other possibility is the administration played him for a patsy

and provided him with information that was fraudulent but proving that would probably be next to impossible since you can bet if they did that they destroyed the evidence fast.

[orpupilofnature57]

22. A definite possibility

[B2G]

2. He doesn't think very highly of Hillary either

[lewebley3]

14. Powel is lied the country into War : enough said!

[HellNoKitty]

3. My gosh..

Colin Powell has turned into a backbiting middle schooler in his older years.

[Skittles]

4. that's a step up from his days as a Bush/Cheney whore

[HellNoKitty]

5. Sure

Go ahead and one-up the new guy...

[Skittles]

9. how long were you lurking, HellNoKitty?

what took you so long to get here?

[HellNoKitty]

10. Not long.

Just like to have fun, and not be too serious.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Well, that makes up for everything.

[brush]

7. He was right about Cheney and his book.

Nobody cares about that has been trying to get his dumb daughter elected.

[Gabi Hayes]

8. so much worse than commonly thought: The Real Colin Powell, from Vietnam thru 2011:

https://consortiumnews.com/archive/powell.html

who else but Robert Parry, who was FIRED from Newsweek for insisting on covering Iran/Contra, when the rest of the MSM was actively covering it up.

lots of articles.....here's one:


Behind Colin Powell's Legend: Part Three

By Robert Parry & Norman Solomon

Saving Ronald Reagan

"We need you, Colin," pleaded the familiar voice over the phone.

“This is serious,” said Colin Powell’s old mentor, Frank Carlucci, who in in December 1986 was President Reagan’s new national security adviser. "Believe me, the presidency is at stake."

With those words, Colin Powell re-entered the Iran-contra affair, a set of events he had dangerously advanced almost a year earlier by secretly arranging missile shipments to Iran.

But just as Powell played an important behind-the-scenes role in those early missile shipments, he would be equally instrumental in the next phase, the scandal's containment.

His skillful handling of the media and Congress would earn him the gratitude of Reagan-Bush insiders and lift Powell into the top levels of the Republican Party.

https://consortiumnews.com/2000/122200a.html

[Solly Mack]

11. It's as if the guilty are competing for most likable war criminal.

[lindysalsagal]

12. Every email survives somewhere. Same with photos.

Assume it's totally public before typing. He never meant for these to get out, of course.