Colin Powell Warned President George W. Bush

[Lakhota]

COLIN POWELL ON IRAQ: “YOU BREAK IT YOU OWN IT”

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Powell should be forced to watch the videos below over and over. They are solely responsible for what has happened in Iraq. This isn’t Obama’s fault. It’s the fault of the neo-cons that wasted $1.5 trillion of our wealth, killed or maimed 50,000 American soldiers, murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, and have unleashed religious wars across the Middle East. The military industrial complex thanks them heartily. Colin Powell said this to President Bush before the Iraq invasion:

“You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people. You will own all their hopes, aspirations, and problems. You’ll own it all.”​

The dark lord – Dick Cheney – will be wheeled onto the set of neo-con warmonger Sean Hannity to blame Obama and his weakness for this disaster. The neo-cons will circle the wagons to deflect blame for the worst decision in modern US history. Oil prices were $25 per barrel on the day we invaded Iraq under false neo-con pretenses. Today it is $107 per barrel. That was only 11 years ago. The amount of blood on the hands of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of the neo-con warmongers is too large to calculate. Do you think the Iraqi people have any hopes or aspirations left?

WARNING/GRAPHIC: COLIN POWELL ON IRAQ: 'YOU BREAK IT YOU OWN IT'

Colin Powell is an honorable man who got tangled up in possibly the worst presidential deception in modern history. That should end the debate about who owns Iraq.

 

[Pennywise]

Powell is a racist.

 

[Stephanie]

still trying to take the heat off their Dear Leader we see

sorry, he's in CHARGE now... this is his baby, he chose to pull our troops out and he chose to go back to bombing them


We're done with everything under Obama is Bush's fault...six years of done

 

[Lakhota]

COLIN POWELL ON IRAQ: “YOU BREAK IT YOU OWN IT”

That should end the debate about who owns Iraq.

 

[whitehall]

For a little historic perspective, Harry Truman sent Troops to Korea on an executive order and we lost an estimated 50,000 in three years during a thoroughly botched mission creep. The area is still unstable and NK still threatens the US. LBJ sent Troops to Vietnam on a fake crisis that never happened. We lost an estimated 50,000 in about ten years during a thoroughly botched operation. President Bush gave Saddam about a year to comply with international sanctions and he refused. Congress (including 36% of democrats) approved boots on the ground in Iraq and then the democrats who gave their permission undermined the mission. Harry Reid should have been indicted for treason for trying to impact the morale of the Troops when he said "the war is lost" just before the Troop Surge. Democrats weren't able to achieve defeat during the conflict so they made sure the Iraq government would be abandoned. Now president Hussein has the nerve to blame the "intelligence agencies" for his negligence in arming the ISIS muslems.

 

[deltex1]

Colon should not have broken it...he should have buried it.

 

[R.D.]

This isn’t Obama’s fault

Is anything ever his fault?

 

[aaronleland]

Obama could have pulled our troops out. Instead he followed the same timeline that Bush and the Iraqi government set. Now he wants to get involved again. Both of them own it.

 

[Stephanie]

Remember how they hated Colon Powel because he help with the LIE. they claim was sold to make the Democrats vote for the war?

now, love love love him

 

[Stephanie]

someone needs a chill pill...Next week it'll be something else that isn't Obama's fault

 

[aaronleland]

Remember how they hated Colon Powel because he help with the LIE. they claim was sold to make the Democrats vote for the war?

now, love love love him

In fairness, I don't remember Democrats being as hard on Powell as they could have been. He seems pretty well liked on both sides of the aisle.

 

[Lakhota]

The one who broke Iraq owns it. Bush broke it.​

 

[Stephanie]

Remember how they hated Colon Powel because he help with the LIE. they claim was sold to make the Democrats vote for the war?

now, love love love him

In fairness, I don't remember Democrats being as hard on Powell as they could have been. He seems pretty well liked on both sides of the aisle.

they weren't here on the board..they couldn't stand him

 

[Lakhota]

Remember how they hated Colon Powel because he help with the LIE. they claim was sold to make the Democrats vote for the war?

now, love love love him

In fairness, I don't remember Democrats being as hard on Powell as they could have been. He seems pretty well liked on both sides of the aisle.

True. I actually felt sorry for him.

 

[R.D.]

Remember how they hated Colon Powel because he help with the LIE. they claim was sold to make the Democrats vote for the war?

now, love love love him

In fairness, I don't remember Democrats being as hard on Powell as they could have been. He seems pretty well liked on both sides of the aisle.

They fear being labeled racist..- Ed Asner

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

The one who broke Iraq owns it. Bush broke it.

Hey, Injun Joe, democrats vote to proceed with that action. Take it up with them, too, if you have a problem with it. As for the here and now, obama rebroke the thing and he needs to fix HIS mess.

 

[Stephanie]

The one who broke Iraq owns it. Bush broke it.

Hey, Injun Joe, democrats vote to proceed with that action. Take it up with them, too, if you have a problem with it. As for the here and now, obama rebroke the thing and he needs to fix HIS mess.

They're on the war path again. The poor thing has no life

it's constant hardon over something

 

[Peach]

Obama could have pulled our troops out. Instead he followed the same timeline that Bush and the Iraqi government set. Now he wants to get involved again. Both of them own it.

Agreed, but the Puppet Master, Cheney, owns the biggest stake. Without him, Bush II might have listened to Powell; also, Powell & McCain have long standing differences. Both fine men who served this country, unlike Cheney who had "OTHER PRIORITIES".

 

[EconChick]

COLIN POWELL ON IRAQ: “YOU BREAK IT YOU OWN IT”

That should end the debate about who owns Iraq.

We had brought Iraq to a stable level that was no longer broken. Don't you rmember O saying "we're leaving behind a stable sovereign Iraq?"

Of course you don't.

Obama then took the STABLE situation and broke it.

But by all means keep showing your total lack of sophistication on the topic.

 

[kiwiman127]

Obama could have pulled our troops out. Instead he followed the same timeline that Bush and the Iraqi government set. Now he wants to get involved again. Both of them own it.

But of course partisans just happen to believe that blinders improve their vision of the real horizon.