Colin Powell is talking about a "trusted leader whose word you can rely on."

[NNadir]

Here you have it folks, from the guy who stood before the entire planet, read a list of fabrications from Dick Cheney that he knew to be fraudulent with the reproduction of Picasso's "Guernica" deliberately covered over, establishing his country as a country of liars and wounding it for generations.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell testified in Sen. Ted Stevens' corruption trial Friday, saying the Republican from Alaska has a "sterling" character.


"He was a trusted individual whose word you could rely on," said Powell, a retired four-star Army general who spent about 40 years in public service.

"Never heard a single dissenting word," Powell, appearing for the defense as a character witness, said. "When you shook hands with Ted Stevens, it would benefit the nation in the long run."

Powell said he worked closely with Stevens when he led the Senate Appropriations Committee, and there was "nothing to ever suggest a lack of integrity."

Powell was Friday's headline defense witness. He resigned from his post as secretary of state in the Bush administration in November 2004.

Powell spent about an hour at the courthouse Thursday preparing to testify, but was sent away after the opening of the defense phase of the trial was delayed.

Stevens, 84, is accused of accepting and failing to report to the Senate momore than $250,000 in gifts and services, including home renovations that primarily came from Veco Corp., an oil-services company that does a lot of business in Alaska. He faces seven counts of making false statements.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/10/stevens.trial/index.html

"My Lie," um whoops, "My Lai" Colin at his best.

[ReadTomPaine]

1. For the life of me, I can't understand why people trust and expect anything of this man...

He's been a self serving GOP tool and bag-man for 40 years.

[NNadir]

3. Well, before the 1990's he was mostly a bag man for the army. He did a sterling job pretending

that nothing happened at My Lai.

[ReadTomPaine]

7. Yep that was his big break...

"In direct refutation of this portrayal is the fact that relations between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent."

He will never live those words down. He's been a hardcore GOP operative since Nixon.

[NNadir]

8. Well he lived them down. He was a major when he covered up My Lai.

He went on to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and then Secretary of State.

This suggests that being a liar worked well for him. There was certainly no reason for him to stop being a liar.

[ReadTomPaine]

9. Well it still gets mentioned obviously, but you've got a point!

And there is certainly no reason for him to stop being a liar today, either...

[LunaSea]

2. "nothing to ever suggest a lack of integrity."

[LiberalinNC]

4. I give could give a shit as to what Powell has to say...he's a fuckin' liar!!!

[thunder rising]

5. So the rumor of an Obama endorsement is moot now, I guess. I haven't liked the MF since he lied

[NNadir]

6. I couldn't care less who he endorses.