Please read the links on Powell I've already posted .. then come back and explain your "man of honor" .. who sat back and watched innocent people die when HE KNEW they were dying for a lie. Please explain how you get "honor" out of that my brother?
I know even honorable men can have terrible judgement. Power makes equivicating pragmatists of us all.
And the more powerful those men are granted, the more horrible those equivicating crimes will be, too
As it regards Iraq, Powell acknowledged his mistakes and assumed responsibility for them.
I don't think this man shits marble, BAC, I am just not convinced his feet are cloven hooves, either.
In this corrupted society, that makes him almost saintly in comparison to the insiders we typically talk about.
He removed himself from that powerful insider position (I think) when it became evident for him that to continue as an insider in that Bush Administration that would have required of him that he sink even lower than he'd already done.
Perhaps it has never happened to you that you are seduced into becoming part of something evil.
I have.
Perhaps that is why I am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. One of my flaws is forgiving people for their sins, perhaps too easily.
But I know that when you recognize where your associations are leading you into something that is evil, the only honorable thing you can do is remove yourself from it, and acknowlege your role in whatever evil it has done.
Powell seems to have done that.
How many others of the Bush cabal can say the same?
As to Mai Lia? He was a Major. He found what he was ordered to find.
I wasn't aware of his role in Iran Contra, though. I actually once spend a fair amount of time studying that emboglio, but don't recall him as a central player in it.
So You'll excuse me if I reserve the right to hold off on accepting as gospel the charges found in a website entitled
DISINFORMATION, won't you?
Guilt is all about DETAILS so I'd need to read
a lot more about that before I fault the man in uniform
for following orders.
As to Powell's son and the obvious nepotism that put Collin's his son in the FCC to grant corporate media power
still more monopoly over our media?
Yes, truly evil, I quite agree.
No evil he's ever acknowledged, either. I am still waiting for that confession, to be honest, but don't expect it....
ever.
Our government, and our corporations (public, private profit and non profit alike) are so rife with nepotism like that it bearly even registers as something fundamentally wrong with this society.
Most people don't think nepotism is wrong. We talk about this society being a meritocracy but only fools think it really is.
So people like you and I are SO in the minority on
that point, that it's not a battle even worth fighting, Bro.
Save you ammunition for those battles where, if you can out the truth, the
average person can understand your point.