Thank you, Colin Powell!! You used the "I" word!

[Bucky]

(too bad you were lying, Mr Secretary)

"The imminent threat is that suddenly, this biological warfare lab, for example, could have been put to use."
--Secretary of State Colin Powell, Interview on NPR's "All Things Considered", NPR (6/27/2003).

Explanation: This statement was misleading because it claimed the purpose of the trailers was to produce biological weapons without disclosing that engineers from the Defense Intelligence Agency who examined the trailers concluded that they were most likely used to produce hydrogen for artillery weather balloons.

source: Iraq on the Record

[Caution]

1. Great find

[Tinoire]

2. Sorry. Can't resist. Belafonte (a Lefty) on Powell. House Nigger

Harry Belafonte's reference to Colin Powell as a House Nigger is not new to Blacks


By Sinclere Lee


WASHINGTON (BNW) -- To be a Black in the Republican Party, you have to be a house nigger, and Harry Belafonte remarks calling Colin Powell one is something that may sound shocking to most white, but it’s very familiar to Black American. All Blacks who called themselves Republicans must sellout their culture and race to tow the party line.

<snip / because who cares what Powell thinks about Belafonte calling a spade a spade>

In a scathing radio interview Tuesday in San Diego, Belafonte blasted Powell in racially charged comments that compared the secretary of state to a plantation slave who moves into the slave owner's house and says only things that will please his master. Belafonte is a longtime political activist.

Both the singer and the secretary of state are Black men of Jamaican descent.

"There's an old saying," Belafonte said. "In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master ... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him.

"Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture."

<snip>

http://www.blacknewsweekly.com/195.html

Great find. Thanks!

[Bucky]

4. Gotta disagree. You can't deprive people of the right to be wrong

Powell's no "house nigger", sorry. He's earned his position by hard work and, up till about three years ago, honest work for the country. The only reason to say Powell is any more corrupt than the a-holes he works with is based on race. That is categorically racist talk and I reject such thinking.

You should know better. Certainly Belefonte should know better. In history class I learned that Belefonte used to march beside a man who talked about people being judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin--a man who was murdered for that principle.

[bvar22]

5. Powell's lying to protect ...

...his masters and solidify his positions with those who would mislead Americans goes back over 35 years, and pre-dates his assistance with the MyLai Massacre coverup.

His image of integrity is just that....an empty image.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. Let's see...by "hard work" do you mean...

...lying to help cover-up My Lai? How about lying to cover-up Desert Storm Syndrome? How about lying virtually every time he opens his mouth as a member of the NeoCon Junta to include his speech about WMDs to the UN?

Is that the "honest work" you were talking about?

[RedSock]

7. honest work

Yeah he helped cover up the My Lai crimes.

... he is a stooge who for some reason got remarkably good press for way too long. happily that is now ending.

[JohnyCanuck]

8. Colin learned in Viet Nam how to please his white masters

When he was ordered to investigate charges that some US troops were engaging in atrocities at the time of the My Lai massacre and while other war crimes were being comitted by some US soldiers, Colin learned that he would be rewarded for reporting what the bosses wanted to hear.

The letter's troubling allegations were not well received at Americal headquarters. Maj. Powell undertook the assignment to review Glen's letter, but did so without questioning Glen or assigning anyone else to talk with him. Powell simply accepted a claim from Glen's superior officer that Glen was not close enough to the front lines to know what he was writing about, an assertion Glen denies.

After that cursory investigation, Powell drafted a response on Dec. 13, 1968. He admitted to no pattern of wrongdoing. Powell claimed that U.S. soldiers in Vietnam were taught to treat Vietnamese courteously and respectfully. The Americal troops also had gone through an hour-long course on how to treat prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions, Powell noted.

"There may be isolated cases of mistreatment of civilians and POWs," Powell wrote in 1968. But "this by no means reflects the general attitude throughout the Division." Indeed, Powell's memo faulted Glen for not complaining earlier and for failing to be more specific in his letter.

Powell reported back exactly what his superiors wanted to hear. "In direct refutation of this portrayal," Powell concluded, "is the fact that relations between Americal soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent."

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/colin3.html

[Tinoire]

10. Yada yada yada Bucky

You sound like the overseer come out to tell the slaves that that house nigger is not really a house nigger and that field hands should listen to the good sense of his rather white ideas.

Sorry. Powell is a house nigger. If you don't like the term, maybe you should start working at getting rid of the plantations because until you do that, sorry, that term is here to stay. It's been here 200 years and no amount of hand-wringing is going to make it disappear frpm Black vocabulary.

Also. Please. If you're going to disparage Harry Belafonte, at least learn to spell his name correctly.

You reject all the 'racist' talk you want. No one cares about the hollow talk. When you get around to rejecting racist principles and tools (such as the CSIS, the NED and the SOA) well, then I might give a flying shit.

You want that house nigger? You got him. Powell for VP. I heard that cry in 2000. I will not listen to any praise of Powell in 2004 without calling people out on their BULLSHIT.

Love eternally,

A field nigger whose back is hurting

[Poiuyt]

3. Others said it also

I believe that Ari Fleisher and Scott McClellan also said the "I" word.

[BrotherBuzz]

9. Oh yeah, Waxman's search engine!

Tons of wonderful nuggets in that thing.