Colin Powell Exposed!

[Gadawg73]

by the way , yellow cake and more was in Iraq -

U.S. Secretly Takes Yellowcake From Iraq - CBS News

Not the same type and not the same that Bush and Powell claimed was there coming from Niger in 2003.
Isreali war planes hit the reactor in 1981 and UN inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake which had been stored in aging drums since before the 1991 war.
We are speaking of the Nigerian yellowcake which was not the same as pre 1991 old cake.

There was no evidence of any yellowcake there from after 1991. The Bush/Powell announcement before the UN was false.

1. All available intelligence data, from every nation that contributed same, as well Democrats such as President Clinton informed the policy.

Even Joe Wilson, who fabricated the NYTimes Op-Ed where he claimed there was no yellow cake connection, agreed that Iraq had sent agents for purchase in Chad, thus contributed to the data.

Data informs policy.


2. "The famous “16 words” in President Bush’s Jan. 28, 2003 State of the Union address turn out to have a basis in fact after all, according to two recently released investigations in the US and Britain."
•A separate report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee said July 7 that the US also had similar information from “a number of intelligence reports,” a fact that was classified at the time Bush spoke.
•Ironically, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who later called Bush’s 16 words a “lie”, supplied information that the Central Intelligence Agency took as confirmation that Iraq may indeed have been seeking uranium from Niger. "

FactCheck.org: Bush's "16 Words" on Iraq & Uranium: He May Have Been Wrong But He Wasn't Lying
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.factcheck.org/article222.html




3. "In its May 22, 2004 edition, the New York Times confirmed a myriad of reports on Saddam's nuclear fuel stockpile - and revealed a chilling detail unknown to weapons inspectors before the war: that Saddam had begun to partially enrich his uranium stash.

The Times noted:

"The repository, at Tuwaitha, a centerpiece of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program, . . . . holds more than 500 tons of uranium . . . . Some 1.8 tons is classified as low-enriched uranium."

Thomas B. Cochran, director of the nuclear program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the Times that "the low-enriched version could be useful to a nation with nuclear ambitions."

"A country like Iran," Mr. Cochran said, "could convert that into weapons-grade material with a lot fewer centrifuges than would be required with natural uranium."

Saddam's 500-ton Uranium Stockpile




4. Joe Wilson's famous trip to Niamey notwithstanding, intelligence analysts generally accept that Iraq made overtures to Niger about purchasing "yellow cake" uranium in 1999. This conclusion has been endorsed by both the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report on Iraq War intelligence and by the British Butler Report. To the best of our knowledge, then, the "16 words" were in fact true. It is not known, on the other hand, whether any deal was actually concluded. As so happens, however, whether or not Iraq obtained uranium from Niger in or after 1999, the inference that the Iraqi nuclear program could not have posed a threat without its having done so is not only obviously problematic on logical grounds -- it is also demonstrably false.

It is well known and well documented that Iraq already possessed some 500 hundred or so tons of "yellow cake" uranium, most of it imported from Portugal and Niger in the early 1980s. (See here, for example, under "yellow cake inventory," from a 1991 IAEA report.) It is, above all, this fact that has been made to disappear from public view by the theatrics surrounding the "16 words." It is worth noting in this connection that the forged documents that were used, along with the Wilson trip, to discredit the administration's arguments reportedly referred to a purchase of some 500 tons of yellow cake: i.e. around the size of Iraq's actual yellow cake stocks. This curious detail suggests that the obfuscation was not accidental. In any case, if Iraq was interested in enriching uranium for weapons use -- which would have been the purpose of importing unenriched "yellow cake" -- it already had ample stocks on hand for doing so.
WPR Article | 16 Words, 500 Tons and 28 Kilograms: the Iraqi Nuclear Program Revisited

"a number of intelligence reports"
What, when, where, how and who? Intelligence before and after in Iraq was many time bogus. Where is it and what specifically did it say that this was NIGERIAN YELLOW CAKE RECENTLY IN COUNTRY?
If there is not hard copy in writing it DOES NOT EXIST.
All those Senate intelligence reports stated was exactly what I stated. They had old yellowcake left over from before the 1991 war. Everyone knew about that and that is not what we are discussing here.

Never said he was lying. They were conned also.
New York Times edition speaks not of THE NIGERIAN YELLOW CAKE.
Nothing Cochran said had anything in it about THE NIGERIAN YELLOW CAKE.
Overtures? LOL, Iraq made overtures TO EVERYONE AND ANYONE on the globe to get anything and everything it could to obtain materials for a nuclear bomb!
We are not speaking of "overtures".
We are speaking of the fact that the Bush administration claimed they had intelligence that Iraq HAD IN THEIR POSSESSION the Niger yellow cake from a recent purchase.
And no matter how hard you folks spin it that was FALSE.

 

[MikeK]

The reason this lubricious bastard, Powell, is able to get over on so many Americans is the average person tends to measure his specious insistence that he actually believed the boldface lies he presented to the world about WMD in Iraq with the yardstick of their (our) own extremely limited awareness. They fail to consider that Powell, because of his military and political background and the access it provides, was in a position to know as much about Iraq's strengths and weaknesses as anyone in government and more than most. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff he orchestrated the Desert Storm engagement, he supervised the decimation of the Iraqi Army, he prevailed over the methodical destruction of the physical nation of Iraq by nine years of constant bombing, and he had unlimited access to intelligence reports and the activities of the inspection teams.

Who knew better than Colin Powell what Saddam Hussein had and didn't have? If Hussein had any sort of significant weapons, whether nuclear, chemical, or biological, why did he not use them against the nation which was gradually bringing about his ruin? Is it because he didn't wish to make us angry?

Colin Powell is a disgrace. He is one of the most reprehensible figures in America's political and military history. Yet there are millions of Americans who are naive enough, or stupid enough, or both, to welcome this serpent back into government.

 

[Gadawg73]

The reason this lubricious bastard, Powell, is able to get over on so many Americans is the average person tends to measure his specious insistence that he actually believed the boldface lies he presented to the world about WMD in Iraq with the yardstick of their (our) own extremely limited awareness. They fail to consider that Powell, because of his military and political background and the access it provides, was in a position to know as much about Iraq's strengths and weaknesses as anyone in government and more than most. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff he orchestrated the Desert Storm engagement, he supervised the decimation of the Iraqi Army, he prevailed over the methodical destruction of the physical nation of Iraq by nine years of constant bombing, and he had unlimited access to intelligence reports and the activities of the inspection teams.

Who knew better than Colin Powell what Saddam Hussein had and didn't have? If Hussein had any sort of significant weapons, whether nuclear, chemical, or biological, why did he not use them against the nation which was gradually bringing about his ruin? Is it because he didn't wish to make us angry?

Colin Powell is a disgrace. He is one of the most reprehensible figures in America's political and military history. Yet there are millions of Americans who are naive enough, or stupid enough, or both, to welcome this serpent back into government.

Will you be able to honor us with your post game analysis after the Super Bowl?
Please give us your opinion as to why the losing team lost and the game plan they used that had them come up short.
Monday morning.

 

[Dugdale_Jukes]

O'rally is a part of the gaggle of nutball media hacks like Pigboy Limpo and Lord of the Flies Beck who helped turn a responsible Republican party into the gaggle of nutballs they became after turning away from fiscal responsibility and tripling the national debt under Reagan and then doubling it again under the inheritor-halfwit Junebug Bush before his crowd broke the economy - to the applause of pot gutted white trash still wearning sansabelt blue leisure suits to their wild-eyed evangelical churches where entire congregations average being about two sips of communion wine from becoming snake handling Rhapsody Seekers.

Junebug Bush and his collection of emotional adolescent corporate welfare grifters used Powell about like the average teenager uses a condom. That is why he left the nutball gaggle that, before Reagan, was well respected by friend and foe alike - and known as the Republican Party.

 

[Dugdale_Jukes]

I always knew Colin Powell was a back stabber.

Sure you did. Not to mention there is no Easter Bunny.

Rational people of normal emotional maturity understand Powell was the one stabbed in the back.

 

[S.J.]

I always knew Colin Powell was a back stabber.

Sure you did. Not to mention there is no Easter Bunny.

Rational people of normal emotional maturity understand Powell was the one stabbed in the back.

Powell was good friends with Jesse Jackson and conferred with him regularly when Jackson was running for president. Powell posed as a Republican but he's always been an affirmative action liberal. He was easy to spot.

 

[Dugdale_Jukes]

I always knew Colin Powell was a back stabber.

Sure you did. Not to mention there is no Easter Bunny.

Rational people of normal emotional maturity understand Powell was the one stabbed in the back.

Powell was good friends with Jesse Jackson and conferred with him regularly when Jackson was running for president. Powell posed as a Republican but he's always been an affirmative action liberal. He was easy to spot.

You left out the part where Powell was a weak enough officer to try to cover up the Pinkville Massacre, but otherwise a fairly accurate description. I would add that Powell MADE HIMSELF EASY TO SPOT as a bag licking supplicant to power.

Did it ever occur to you that even a halfwit scum like Junior Bush and his corporate welfare grifting pal Dirtball Cheney might have had enough brains to guess correctly they could USE a popular but weak general like Powell to help them get support for invading the wrong country for the wrong reasons?

Which leads to the correct conclusion, that Powell is the one stabbed in the back. Hilariously, he trusted an inheritor and a thief. It doesn't get much stupider than that, which could lead to an additional conclusion - that Powell got what he deserved.

 

[S.J.]

Sure you did. Not to mention there is no Easter Bunny.

Rational people of normal emotional maturity understand Powell was the one stabbed in the back.

Powell was good friends with Jesse Jackson and conferred with him regularly when Jackson was running for president. Powell posed as a Republican but he's always been an affirmative action liberal. He was easy to spot.

You left out the part where Powell was a weak enough officer to try to cover up the Pinkville Massacre, but otherwise a fairly accurate description. I would add that Powell MADE HIMSELF EASY TO SPOT as a bag licking supplicant to power.

Did it ever occur to you that even a halfwit scum like Junior Bush and his corporate welfare grifting pal Dirtball Cheney might have had enough brains to guess correctly they could USE a popular but weak general like Powell to help them get support for invading the wrong country for the wrong reasons?

Which leads to the correct conclusion, that Powell is the one stabbed in the back. Hilariously, he trusted an inheritor and a thief. It doesn't get much stupider than that, which could lead to an additional conclusion - that Powell got what he deserved.

I'm glad you agree with me on the integrity of Colin Powell (or lack thereof).

 

[Gadawg73]

I always knew Colin Powell was a back stabber.

Sure you did. Not to mention there is no Easter Bunny.

Rational people of normal emotional maturity understand Powell was the one stabbed in the back.

Powell was good friends with Jesse Jackson and conferred with him regularly when Jackson was running for president. Powell posed as a Republican but he's always been an affirmative action liberal. He was easy to spot.

So Powell is "good friends with Jesse Jackson"
Colin Powell never endorsed Jackson in any of his campaigns.
Or Al Sharpton or any other candidate just because they were black.
Some "good friend" that is.

 

[thanatos144]

Powell lied as is clear, or at least his words were not true. If the information upon which he based his words was false or phony, the lie would not truly be his. I find it a little hard to believe he didn't know, but at least, as someone said, he has done penance in admitting the wrong.

Not many people have made as much of a contribution to America as he. A few much more, but his is still up there. I think he is trusted in the public mind. He would be a strong candidate in '16.

He still turned out to be a race baiting bigot.

Here's a suggestion:

Based on the poor performance of Chuck Hagel, if Obama withdraws the nomination of Hagel....

....and, instead, names Colin Powell as nominee for Sec'y of Defense...

...betcha it would be unanimous approval.

Only because Republicans dont like to be called racists.

 

[Gadawg73]

He still turned out to be a race baiting bigot.

Here's a suggestion:

Based on the poor performance of Chuck Hagel, if Obama withdraws the nomination of Hagel....

....and, instead, names Colin Powell as nominee for Sec'y of Defense...

...betcha it would be unanimous approval.

Only because Republicans dont like to be called racists.

Sticks and stones.
Anyone can call anyone anything anytime.
Doesn't mean it is true but as long as the gullible and naive believe it is the name calling will continue.

 

[thanatos144]

Here's a suggestion:

Based on the poor performance of Chuck Hagel, if Obama withdraws the nomination of Hagel....

....and, instead, names Colin Powell as nominee for Sec'y of Defense...

...betcha it would be unanimous approval.

Only because Republicans dont like to be called racists.

Sticks and stones.
Anyone can call anyone anything anytime.
Doesn't mean it is true but as long as the gullible and naive believe it is the name calling will continue.

Oh please the republicans in office are pussies like you who fold at the slightest mention of racism.

 

[poet]

1. "O’Reilly Confronts Colin Powell In Wide-Ranging Interview On Obama And GOP’s Racial Politics

2. General Colin Powell has been very critical of the Republican party in recent years, and tonight he appeared on Bill O’Reilly‘s show to defend his criticisms of the GOP. O’Reilly grilled Powell on why he continues to support President Obama....made him defend his claim that the Republican party has a problem with minorities.

3. Powell explained to O’Reilly that he was put off in 2008 and 2012 by the economic plans proposed by the Republican campaigns.

4. ....saying that he is “troubled” by the rightward shift of the party and decided Obama was the “best choice” for the presidency.




5. O’Reilly pointed out that the economy under Obama has not been particularly kind to African-Americans. Powell said that overall the economy has improved,.....

6. ...suggesting that if they want to endear themselves to minorities, they cannot keep pushing for immigration and voter ID laws that adversely affect minority groups.

7. ...said he opposes “additional levels” of ID that would disenfranchise many people, while disputing the idea that voter fraud is a widespread problem.





8. O’Reilly more directly took on Powell over his claim that parts of the Republican party “still look down on minorities.” O’Reilly highlighted Powell’s criticisms of John Sununu and Sarah Palin for, respectively, calling Obama “lazy” and criticizing his “shuck and jive” on Benghazi. Powell clarified that he does not believe Sununu and Palin and racists,...."
O?Reilly Confronts Colin Powell In Wide-Ranging Interview On Obama And GOP?s Racial Politics | Mediaite





What a fraud!!!

How so?

His big criticism was the phrases “lazy” and “shuck and jive” ....but, heck, 'they're not racists!'
Then why are you painting 'em as racist????
And paint the party that gave him his singular accomplishments as racist....just to make sure Obama won the election.


And "Powell said that overall the economy has improved,.." then fate comes around and bites him in the butt: "U.S. economy contracts for first time since recession"- GDP report: U.S. economy contracts in the fourth quarter of 2012 - Jan. 30, 2013

....and this before Obama's payroll tax kicks in!!
Facts skewer Powell!



"...pushing for immigration and voter ID laws..."
Studies have shown that photo ID has no effect on minority turnout. Another Democrat talking point from Powell.

And a former National Security Adviser opposed to knowing who was coming across the border???

What a charlatan.

And he knows folks know it, he knows why he should be ashamed!
That's why he went on the O'Reilly show.



Who wants to be the first to tell the real reason for turncoat-Powell's behavior?

He finally came to his senses, at the 11th hour, back in Oct 2008, when he chose to support Barack Obama over John McCain. After having been thrown under the bus by Cheney, and Rumsfeld, during the U.N. conference, leading up to the Iraqi War, he decided that he should distance himself from the Bush administration and the Iraq War, expressed in his book (not sure which one published in '03, and '12).
Here's another reference as to why Powell has "soured" on the GOP:
Colin Powell: GOP Holds 'Dark Vein Of Intolerance' (VIDEO)

 

[Gadawg73]

Only because Republicans dont like to be called racists.

Sticks and stones.
Anyone can call anyone anything anytime.
Doesn't mean it is true but as long as the gullible and naive believe it is the name calling will continue.

Oh please the republicans in office are pussies like you who fold at the slightest mention of racism.

As I said, all you have is name calling like a 5 year old.
Sticks and stones.

 

[S.J.]

Sure you did. Not to mention there is no Easter Bunny.

Rational people of normal emotional maturity understand Powell was the one stabbed in the back.

Powell was good friends with Jesse Jackson and conferred with him regularly when Jackson was running for president. Powell posed as a Republican but he's always been an affirmative action liberal. He was easy to spot.

So Powell is "good friends with Jesse Jackson"
Colin Powell never endorsed Jackson in any of his campaigns.
Or Al Sharpton or any other candidate just because they were black.
Some "good friend" that is.

Yeah, like I said, he's a back stabber. He wanted to advance his career, so he stuck with the party that was popular at the time, stabbing his friends in the back in order to be in the limelight with Reagan and Bush (both of them). Then, when the Dems started winning the propaganda war against Bush W, he hopped on the Obama bandwagon, endearing himself to the left. He's a back stabbing opportunist, and BOTH sides would be wise to stay away from him because he will eventually turn on them in a heartbeat if a better opportunity comes along.

 

[Too Tall]

O'rally is a part of the gaggle of nutball media hacks like Pigboy Limpo and Lord of the Flies Beck who helped turn a responsible Republican party into the gaggle of nutballs they became after turning away from fiscal responsibility and tripling the national debt under Reagan and then doubling it again under the inheritor-halfwit Junebug Bush before his crowd broke the economy - to the applause of pot gutted white trash still wearning sansabelt blue leisure suits to their wild-eyed evangelical churches where entire congregations average being about two sips of communion wine from becoming snake handling Rhapsody Seekers.

Junebug Bush and his collection of emotional adolescent corporate welfare grifters used Powell about like the average teenager uses a condom. That is why he left the nutball gaggle that, before Reagan, was well respected by friend and foe alike - and known as the Republican Party.

Fact: 1/3 of the entire national debt has been added during the first four years of the Obama administration.

 

[Too Tall]

Then why was Powell so angry at the Bush administration when they finally found out months after the fact that the yellow cake was not in Iraq?
HE felt betrayed by Bush and subsequently did when his advice was not taken when the CPA was formed and General Garner was dismissed over Powell's objections and Bremer was put in his place.
Powell advised the Bush administration time and time again to listen to the military commanders on the ground and Bush would not.
Your "facts" do not add up.
David Sirota is a left wing liberal hack.

by the way , yellow cake and more was in Iraq -

The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" - the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment - was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.

U.S. Secretly Takes Yellowcake From Iraq - CBS News

Not the same type and not the same that Bush and Powell claimed was there coming from Niger in 2003.
Isreali war planes hit the reactor in 1981 and UN inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake which had been stored in aging drums since before the 1991 war.
We are speaking of the Nigerian yellowcake which was not the same as pre 1991 old cake.

There was no evidence of any yellowcake there from after 1991. The Bush/Powell announcement before the UN was false.

Yellow cake is yellow cake regardless of where it came from. The charge made about Nigerian yellow cake was that Iran TRIED to buy some but were unsuccessful.
Would you dispute CBS news?

 

[ZimothyTahn]

lol @ conservatives clinging to the notion that iraq had wmds even though everyone else on the fucking planet knows that's not true...oh conservatives, is there any truth you won't remain willfully ignorant of?

 

[S.J.]

lol @ conservatives clinging to the notion that iraq had wmds even though everyone else on the fucking planet knows that's not true...oh conservatives, is there any truth you won't remain willfully ignorant of?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSwSDvgw5Uc]Democrats, WMD's & The Iraq War - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Bigfoot]

lol @ conservatives clinging to the notion that iraq had wmds even though everyone else on the fucking planet knows that's not true...oh conservatives, is there any truth you won't remain willfully ignorant of?

You never post anything that isn't hateful and often completely stupid.

“At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.”