Colin Powell Warned President George W. Bush

[bodecea]

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

So, you missed in the OP where he is condemned to watch that over and over and over again with the rest of them?

 

[bodecea]

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

Show the posts where we couldn't stand Powell.

 

[Stephanie]

oh how they would LOVE to just forget this:

What Did The Democrats Say About Iraq's WMD ??

For several months, John Kerry and his peers have blasted President Bush over the Iraqi War. Interestingly, President Bush stated, simply, that there was a "grave danger" of Saddam Hussein acquiring and building "Nuclear Weapons and other WMDs" during "the next six months, at the time of the outbreak of war.

He later stated: "We all believed there were stockpiles, since we'd been lectured on the subject by the Clinton Administration for several years." To date, not a single Democrat has owned up to responsibility for the claims of "stockpiles", which were not what President Bush stated. We note that the Democrats rely upon the weakness of the memory of the American Public to cloud the issue over. They blame Bush for Democratic Party misrepresentations. ACSA believes the Democrats are trying to ride their own misrepresentations into the White House, we thought we'd publish what each one said, among a crowd of similar statements by ALL the Democrats, who are now accusing Bush of something he did not say and did not do... This dishonesty by the Democratic Party has seriously muddied the political process in the 2004 election.

Here's what the Democrats said about Iraq's WMDs (including the source of each quote):


"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003 | Source

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
- President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998 | Source

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
- President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998 | Source

"We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction."
- Madeline Albright, Feb 1, 1998 | Source

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
- Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998 | Source

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton.
- (D) Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, others, Oct. 9, 1998 | Source

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998 | Source

"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999 | Source

"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and th! e means of delivering them."
- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002 | Source

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002 | Source

"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002 | Source

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002 | Source

"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..."
- Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002 | Source

"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002 | Source

"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002 | Source

"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002 | Source

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002 | Source

 

[Lakhota]

We must never forget that Bush used 9/11 as a pretext for invading Iraq by claiming Iraq was somehow connected to 9/11. All sane people know that wasn't true.

 

[MikeK]

Powell was duped by Bush.

If Powell were that stupid he could not have made corporal!

 

[Lakhota]

Powell warned Bush. Bush ignored him. Now we have ISIS.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Powell warned Bush. Bush ignored him. Now we have ISIS.

You conveniently and dishonestly left out the part about troop surge and subsequent success followed by Obama's surrender.

 

[MikeK]

you mean no 9/11?....i dont care if fucking Chuck Norris was President....it still would have in all probability have happened....

There were two motivations for the 9/11 attack -- U.S. support of Israel's expansion into the Gaza region, and American military presence in the Holy Land of Saudi Arabia (the bin Sultan airbase).

Usama bin Laden began organizing that attack during the Clinton Administration. Bush was repeatedly advised of specific activities and indications, such as suspicious Arabs learning to fly passenger planes with no interest in taking-off or landing them (see FBI agent Colleen Rowley's memo to Director Mueller). Bush not only ignored these warnings, he denied ever receiving them -- and his pickaninny, Condoleeza Rice, lied to Congress to affirm his denial.

Shortly after the attack Bush quietly pressured Sharon to evict the Israeli settlers from Gaza and he ordered removal of the American airbase from the region of Mecca in Saudi Arabia (fifteen of the nineteen shahids who conducted the attack were Saudi). He did this to divert possible media attention from his provocatively contemptuous refusal to acknowledge bin Laden's legitimate complaints.

When it seemed that Congressional support for Bush's proposed invasion of Iraq was doubtful, Bush pressured his house-nigg3r, Colin Powell, to lie to Congress and the UN on national television, which Powell obediently did, sending tens of thousands of American troops who trusted him to be killed or maimed. He did that knowing far better than anyone else Hussein had no Weapons of Mass Destruction. Powell knew this because he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who orchestrated Operation Desert Storm. No one had access to more reliable intelligence than he did.

Colin Powell is the lowest of the low. He deserves to be stripped of all honors and shot for what he did. Because had he not cringingly obeyed his master the Congress would not have authorized the Iraq invasion.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

you mean no 9/11?....i dont care if fucking Chuck Norris was President....it still would have in all probability have happened....

There were two motivations for the 9/11 attack -- U.S. support of Israel's expansion into the Gaza region, and American military presence in the Holy Land of Saudi Arabia (the bin Sultan airbase).

Usama bin Laden began organizing that attack during the Clinton Administration. Bush was repeatedly advised of specific activities and indications, such as suspicious Arabs learning to fly passenger planes with no interest in taking-off or landing them (see FBI agent Colleen Rowley's memo to Director Mueller). Bush not only ignored these warnings, he denied ever receiving them -- and his pickaninny, Condoleeza Rice, lied to Congress to affirm his denial.

Shortly after the attack Bush quietly pressured Sharon to evict the Israeli settlers from Gaza and he ordered removal of the American airbase from the region of Mecca in Saudi Arabia (fifteen of the nineteen shahids who conducted the attack were Saudi). He did this to divert possible media attention from his provocatively contemptuous refusal to acknowledge bin Laden's legitimate complaints.

When it seemed that Congressional support for Bush's proposed invasion of Iraq was doubtful, Bush pressured his house-nigg3r, Colin Powell, to lie to Congress and the UN on national television, which Powell obediently did, sending tens of thousands of American troops who trusted him to be killed or maimed. He did that knowing far better than anyone else Hussein had no Weapons of Mass Destruction. Powell knew this because he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who orchestrated Operation Desert Storm. No one had access to more reliable intelligence than he did.

Colin Powell is the lowest of the low. He deserves to be stripped of all honors and shot for what he did. Because had he not cringingly obeyed his master the Congress would not have authorized the Iraq invasion.

Hey dupe. WMD was only part of the reason for invasion. You're parroting the propaganda. Another political partisan hack.

 

[Rotagilla]

you mean no 9/11?....i dont care if fucking Chuck Norris was President....it still would have in all probability have happened....

There were two motivations for the 9/11 attack -- U.S. support of Israel's expansion into the Gaza region, and American military presence in the Holy Land of Saudi Arabia (the bin Sultan airbase).

Usama bin Laden began organizing that attack during the Clinton Administration. Bush was repeatedly advised of specific activities and indications, such as suspicious Arabs learning to fly passenger planes with no interest in taking-off or landing them (see FBI agent Colleen Rowley's memo to Director Mueller). Bush not only ignored these warnings, he denied ever receiving them -- and his pickaninny, Condoleeza Rice, lied to Congress to affirm his denial.

Shortly after the attack Bush quietly pressured Sharon to evict the Israeli settlers from Gaza and he ordered removal of the American airbase from the region of Mecca in Saudi Arabia (fifteen of the nineteen shahids who conducted the attack were Saudi). He did this to divert possible media attention from his provocatively contemptuous refusal to acknowledge bin Laden's legitimate complaints.

When it seemed that Congressional support for Bush's proposed invasion of Iraq was doubtful, Bush pressured his house-nigg3r, Colin Powell, to lie to Congress and the UN on national television, which Powell obediently did, sending tens of thousands of American troops who trusted him to be killed or maimed. He did that knowing far better than anyone else Hussein had no Weapons of Mass Destruction. Powell knew this because he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who orchestrated Operation Desert Storm. No one had access to more reliable intelligence than he did.

Colin Powell is the lowest of the low. He deserves to be stripped of all honors and shot for what he did. Because had he not cringingly obeyed his master the Congress would not have authorized the Iraq invasion.

...and then changed parties so he could vote democrat when the democrats ran the negro.

 

[MikeK]

Hey dupe. WMD was only part of the reason for invasion. You're parroting the propaganda. Another political partisan hack.

I understand your bias and the reason for it. But you need to understand that without Colin Powell's mendacious performance before the UN the U.S. Congress would not have authorized the Iraq invasion.

Rather than seek to vindicate Powell you should objectively assess what he did, which is to betray the American People and, worse, the thousands of troops his treachery sent to be killed or maimed. You need to see Colin Powell for what his true nature has identified him as, which is a scurrilous politician in uniform and, ultimately, George W. Bush's house nigg er.

Don't demean yourself by even indirectly defending this sleazy, treacherous, self-serving sonofabitch. He deserves to be shot or hanged for what he did.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Hey dupe. WMD was only part of the reason for invasion. You're parroting the propaganda. Another political partisan hack.

I understand your bias and the reason for it. But you need to understand that without Colin Powell's mendacious performance before the UN the U.S. Congress would not have authorized the Iraq invasion.

Rather than seek to vindicate Powell you should objectively assess what he did, which is to betray the American People and, worse, the thousands of troops his treachery sent to be killed or maimed. You need to see Colin Powell for what his true nature has identified him as, which is a scurrilous politician in uniform and, ultimately, George W. Bush's house nigg er.

Don't demean yourself by even indirectly defending this sleazy, treacherous, self-serving sonofabitch. He deserves to be shot or hanged for what he did.

No. Powell was of the few who advised on Iraq with trepidation.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

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.

Who cares? Powell took his orders from Bush, not the other way around Liekhota

 

[Discombobulated]

you mean no 9/11?....i dont care if fucking Chuck Norris was President....it still would have in all probability have happened....

There were two motivations for the 9/11 attack -- U.S. support of Israel's expansion into the Gaza region, and American military presence in the Holy Land of Saudi Arabia (the bin Sultan airbase).

Usama bin Laden began organizing that attack during the Clinton Administration. Bush was repeatedly advised of specific activities and indications, such as suspicious Arabs learning to fly passenger planes with no interest in taking-off or landing them (see FBI agent Colleen Rowley's memo to Director Mueller). Bush not only ignored these warnings, he denied ever receiving them -- and his pickaninny, Condoleeza Rice, lied to Congress to affirm his denial.

Shortly after the attack Bush quietly pressured Sharon to evict the Israeli settlers from Gaza and he ordered removal of the American airbase from the region of Mecca in Saudi Arabia (fifteen of the nineteen shahids who conducted the attack were Saudi). He did this to divert possible media attention from his provocatively contemptuous refusal to acknowledge bin Laden's legitimate complaints.

When it seemed that Congressional support for Bush's proposed invasion of Iraq was doubtful, Bush pressured his house-nigg3r, Colin Powell, to lie to Congress and the UN on national television, which Powell obediently did, sending tens of thousands of American troops who trusted him to be killed or maimed. He did that knowing far better than anyone else Hussein had no Weapons of Mass Destruction. Powell knew this because he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who orchestrated Operation Desert Storm. No one had access to more reliable intelligence than he did.

Colin Powell is the lowest of the low. He deserves to be stripped of all honors and shot for what he did. Because had he not cringingly obeyed his master the Congress would not have authorized the Iraq invasion.

...and then changed parties so he could vote democrat when the democrats ran the negro.

Which of course is the only reason that makes sense to racists like yourself.

 

[Political Junky]

If Al Gore hadn't been cheated out of the presidency in 2000 - none of this mess would have happened.

Gore Won Florida

you mean no 9/11?....i dont care if fucking Chuck Norris was President....it still would have in all probability have happened....

OMG, Chuck Norris, Bush's favorite actor.

 

[The Rabbi]

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.

Um, Obama did pull troops out. How did you miss the last 5 years?

 

[The Rabbi]

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.

It's like Obama stumbled into the White House and was shocked to discover he's been president for nearly 6 years. It's like some kind of anxiety dream.

 

[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.

Um, Obama did pull troops out. How did you miss the last 5 years?

As I said, he did, following the timeline Bush had set. You are far from the brightest poster on this forum.

 

[Claudette]

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

Bullshit.

Bush has been gone for six years. Your boy has been running the show for six years.

He now owns it and it looks like he wants to put our boys back in Iraq after he declared that war over.

Yep. Your boy owns it Shitter.

 

[Harry Dresden]

If Al Gore hadn't been cheated out of the presidency in 2000 - none of this mess would have happened.

Gore Won Florida

you mean no 9/11?....i dont care if fucking Chuck Norris was President....it still would have in all probability have happened....

OMG, Chuck Norris, Bush's favorite actor.

yea thats why i mentioned him....Clinton said he enjoyed Walker Texas Ranger....does that make it better for you?....