Powell Rebukes Dems for Criticizing Bush

[DoYouEverWonder]

AP wire

January 21, 2004, 10:47 PM EST

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday criticized Democratic presidential candidates for saying "ridiculous, outrageous and irresponsible" things about President Bush.

Powell said it was "just awful" and "total absurdity" for former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean to speak openly about theories that suggest Bush was warned in advance about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

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"None of us knew about 9/11 before the attack. My God, to suggest that responsible people, the president of the United States, would have known about that before the fact and not done anything about it, it is just, it's just, it's awful," Powell said.

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"One, I'm annoyed. Second, they know better. Three, they must be desperate," Powell said. "I mean, the American people aren't going to fall for these kinds of ridiculous, outrageous and irresponsible charges."


Someone needs to tell Colin that none of this is ridiculous, outrageous or irresponsible. What is really awful is that responsible people, the president of the United States, knew that something big was going to happen and the fact is they did nothing about it, even once the attacks had begun, they all sat on their hands until it was too late to stop the events in progress. Sorry Colin, you are the one who is ridiculous, outrageous and irresponsible and you can add to that list that you are also a major LIAR.

[La_Serpiente]

1. ahhh...typo

Dean since has said he doesn't believe Bush new about the attacks in advance.

maybe AP will pick that up soon.

[Guaranteed]

15. He said it in the same paragraph. nt

[saigon68]

27. COLON BOWEL IN A STATE OF DENIAL

When Colon was in Nam supervising the My Lai coverup for Rusty Calley and the Americal for lunch bunch,

His later boss and Master was dodging the Draft--- and going AWOL in the Guard.

[leftchick]

2. powell is the one who sounds desperate....

Are your lies catching up with you colin?

[SoCalDem]

3. 6 words...

SHUT UP...SHUT UP... SHUT UP...

[non sociopath skin]

4. Verstehen Sie nichts ???

Der Fuhrer IST Deutschland !!!!

The Skin

[kaitykaity]

12. Sprechen sie English, bitte.

Wir verstehen nichts.

[non sociopath skin]

14. O ...

Tut mir leid :cry:

The Skin

[kaitykaity]

22. lol.

Danke.

[yankeedem]

5. Then Colon

(misspelling intentional), tell your boss to start releasing ALL the documents relating to 9/11 and stop muzzling the Kean commission. After all, you have nothing to hide.

Colon really believes that the boss knew nothing about this. This is because he isn't in "the inner circle". He's simply window dressing to make the neocons look moderate.

[terrisel]

6. It's not just what they "knew", it's what they were told by their

intelligence reports, and whether or not they warned the most likely targets.
....and now it is also about what they are covering up.

[RapidCreek]

7. Coming from a guy who covered up the Mai Li Massacre

that's just priceless. I suppose those who questioned his actions in that little fiasco were just awful too.

How the hell a dishonorable piece of shit like Powell go where he is today is proof positive being a shill for and an asslicker of the right type of folks can get you anything.

RC

[DiverDave]

8. I actually

admired him after reading his book.
It made alot of sense, then.
Now he has shown that he is just another junta bootlicker apologist.
It really does seem that it was a different person that wrote that book.

[JHB]

11. What was it retired CIA guy Ray McGovern said...

... in an interview by Will Pitt?

I understand Colin Powell. I know where he is coming from, I know where he got his identity and his persona, and it was in this great institution we call the United States Army, which, by the way, I am very proud to have served in. But that be exaggerated, and it has been in his case. People were expecting him to take a stand on principle and resign. That was never a possibility I attributed to Colin Powell, because unlike General Clark, Powell is really a creature of how he was given his identity in this whole system. He is just not constitutionally able to buck it.

[LiberalFighter]

35. That he is nothing without the Army, without the bush?

His identity was created for him by the Army. The Army being the brass that knowingly allowed the cover up.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. If this accusation is so outrageous,

how come Bush won't allow any more time for the 911's commission to investigate? Arkansas Democrat-Gazette had a blurb the other day that the commission's time won't be extended beyond May.

And the right wing investigated White Water for TEN YEARS. Jeez.

[IndianaGreen]

10. Powell is contradicted by LBN story about secret pre-9/11 warning

that Senator Shelby had.

Powell is a pathological liar.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=325021

[Cooley Hurd]

13. Does it take being smacked by a dead mackerel to get thru...

...to Powell?



He should be utterly ashamed of himself for his complicity in one of the biggest crimes ever perpetrated by the US - the unprovoked attack of a sovereign nation.

[sendero]

16. Token defends Cartman....

.... go figure.

I cannot wait until the truth of this whole sorry mess comes to light and Colin can live out his life in well-deserved ignominity.

And his little punk-ass spawn at the FCC too.

[Algorem]

17. Uncle Tom's crabbin'.

[truth2power]

48. LMAO!!

Fell off my chair! Damn, that was great.

[leesa]

18. They supposedly "forced" him to lie to the UN to start a war and yet he

thinks they wouldn't lie about this? This man is despicable!

[0007]

19. Here is the truth about Colin Powell

"As a military assistant to Caspar Weinberger during the Reagan administration, he helped to deceive Congress about the trading in heavy weapons with Iran, about the exchange of those weapons for hostages, and about the diversion of the illicit proceeds to finance another illicit operation in Nicaragua.

In Panama, in 1989, he helped shape an operation that totally disregarded international law and took many civilian lives.

During the Gulf War, he strongly opposed any military help for the Kurdish and Shia rebellions against Saddam Hussein.

In the Bosnian conflict, he publicly opposed any intervention against Slobodan Milosevic and his forcible creation of a "Greater Serbia."

[atreides1]

42. One other Thing

He also assisted in the decision not to send any armored vehicles to Somalia, for fear that it would help to escalate the situation there.

This was right before "Black Hawk Down", and yet his part in the
decision has very seldom been brought up. All the blame has fallen
on former President Clinton, and the former SecDef Les Aspin.

In his position as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Powell was considered
the one to have the best knowledge regarding the deployment of armor
to Somalia.

I'm not saying that some of the Rangers wouldn't have died, but with armor support the loss of life might not have been as bad as it was.
Unfortunately the only other person that could answer this question
is Lt Gen Boykins, as he was the commander of those men that were
ambushed and died.

[Corgigal]

20. the American people aren't going to fall for these kinds of ridiculous

outrageous and irresponsible charges."

Well of course NOT, since your adminstration isn't releasing anything nor are you really investigating. However you guys won't always be in power and it might take 25 or 50 years but your dirty laundry will have to air one day.

[hyphenate]

21. Hmmmm

>>>>>>My God, to suggest that responsible people<<<<<<<<

No one ever said the chimp was a responsible kinda guy.

[RT Atlanta]

23. Powell

I don't have much to add to the foregoing other than to ask who annointed him the latest mouthpiece of the admin?!? At the time Powell was chosen to be SOS, I had some respect for him and expected him to be more of an independent mind rather than the lap dog that he is to */Cheney and their handlers. After his "performance" at the UN and the lies upon which it was based, I have zero respect for the man and do not trust a word uttered from his mouth.

[are_we_united_yet]

24. But Colin

you have no credibility

[CO Liberal]

25. CO Liberal Rebukes Powell.....

...for being a dickwad, sellout, bastard, son-of-a-bitch, worthless turd of a human being.

[shanti]

26. oh look

another attack on dean. who woulda thunk it?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

28. It's not Bush's fault, he was on vacation

OK, there was some advance notice of "something big" but it would have been ridiculous, absurd, irresponsible, my God, just awful to suggest that he should have cut his well-deserved month-long vacation short. My God.

Powell also denied that Bush's favorite song is "Vacation" by the Go-Gos, or that he owns all of the Chevy Chase "Vacation" movies, or that prior to instructing his staff to post the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Lincoln, Bush's first choice was an "I'd Rather Be On Vacation" bumper sticker.

Powell is right, though...we are slowly beginning to understand what kind of crap the American people will and will not stand for.

[lovedems]

29. Sheesh, it's a presidential election. Does he want fluff and ignorance?

There are a great deal of voters who have questioned the pResidents knowledge. Oh, I guess the 9/11 investigation is just for shits and giggles.

He should be ashamed of himself for so blindly being the puppet to this adminsitration. They took his hard earn reputation and have made him look like an absolute fool (and liar to boot).

Colin, when all this is over you won't have anything left. Not even your good name.

[bif]

30. Then why aren't they investigating it?

What are they hiding?

[hey2370]

31. The House man versus the Field men

Great speech by Malcolm X.

Scraps from the master's table are better than being independent and free, and those uppity enough to criticize the master make the House man's life less secure. God, Colin is a pisspoor example of a man.

[Jack Rabbit]

32. Jack Rabbit rebukes Powell for serving Bush

. . . and for calling the squatter "President".

[RobinA]

33. Gotta Agree With Powell

on one level. Sounding the "Bush Knew" alarm in this campaign is a ticket to a Bush second term. Unless there's a taped phone call between OBL and the administration, that dog ain't gonna hunt in the general election.

[Sideways]

39. Ugh. Sorry Pigs Don't Fly

What part of :wtf: don't you get? The dogs are hunting and Bush is a fucking joke.

[bobbyboucher]

45. Sorry to tell you, but you are mistaken.

Bush is going down hard if even the near truth gets out.

[abelenkpe]

34. I'm sorry

But why should I give a damn what that lying traitorous fool thinks or says? Personally I hope that when and if we can have honest elections we will vote bush and Powell and all of bush's henchmen out of office. Powell can put on this false act of outrage, but it would be better for him to realize that many many people don't trust a single word that he or his keepers say anymore. If there is nothing to hide about 9/11 then why are they keeping those records secret? Why have they done all that is possible to thwart the 9/11 investigation? Why? Because they did something wrong and they are trying to hide it. The bush administration have proven themselves to be deceivers and I will believe nothing that that administration says again. The trust is gone, so they can quit the act.

[BeFree]

36. Ok, Mr. SOS, lets say you didn't know...

Then, I would suggest, that you, and the rest administration showed just how incompetent ya'll are. You should have known something!

Your choice: either you were totally incompetent and therefore should resign for the good of the country, or you knew and did NOTHING to stop it from happening.

Take responsibility, Sir. Quit hiding.

[kwolf68]

37. I agree with Colin...

And I am very glad the Republicans never said or accussed anything about President Clinton during a time our miltiary was in Kosovo.

[devinsgram]

38. There's an old saying,

The truth always hurts.

[Postman]

40. YOU are also ridiculous, outrageous and irresponsible ..........

In your Lie-Fest at the UN last Feb.

I notice you've been reading "The Prince" by Machiavelli.

Back in 1860 they'd call you Uncle Tom.

[Rex]

41. Colon Bowels needs an enema

Bush knew.

[savistocate]

43. Where to e-mail

--safely-- a response to such out of touch denial. OnlytLTTE.. &hope it could circulate. Stars & Stripes has letters making many of the points..this WH failed the American people.

He is not even connecting to the factlast May WH had to admit it had CIA intel before them in an Aug mtg but dismissed it as "too general" "just buzz". Just buzz if their minds__ set on other plans. We had headlines Bush Knew even in NYPost. Then
corp media neutralized it pushing it into blackhole-of-BushCheneyRumspowell disasters.

9-11 Commission surfaced to admit evidence convinces the triple hi-jack bombings could have been prevented. Every open minded person knows this. And it happened on their watch--
just that much they refuse to admit acknowledge. Points I've made in letters to media-ed & "analyst" reporters.

[SOS]

44. "just awful" and "total absurdity"

That is an accurate description of his UN presentation.

[Cassandra]

46. Even if you wanted to be kind to this misadministration...

and let them say that they didn't know in advance (and I don't believe that they didn't know anything), the total lack of air defense is damning. WHERE WAS THE AIR FORCE?!?

[DoYouEverWonder]

47. Even more damning

How come the people in all of the key command positions did their best to ignore the attacks while they were in progress? How come not even one of them had a normal human reaction to the news that the WTC in NYC had been hit by a passenger jet and that there were other hijacked planes in the air?

[Cassandra]

50. Why have the air traffic controllers...

never been interviewed?

[Hobarticus]

49. Powell lied in front of the UN. Case closed.

"I mean, the American people aren't going to fall for these kinds of ridiculous, outrageous and irresponsible charges."

Funny, they bought YOUR line of shit, Colin, and it was even a bigger stretch.