Ex-Powell aide on Romney's foreign policy team: 'These people make me sick'
Source: msnbc
Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, skewered Mitt Romneys foreign policy team on Monday, saying their policies make his stomach turn.
Wilkerson took particular aim at John Bolton, former President George W. Bushs ambassador to the United Nationsand now an adviser to Romney.
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"Utterly unbelievable, Wilkerson said, blasting Romney as operating on a Cold War music sheet.
Asked about former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfelds endorsement of Romneys speech, Wilkerson declared that Rumsfeld, one of the key architects of the Iraq War has zero credibility with me and hell never regain it again.
Read more: http://leanforward.msnbc.com/_news/2012/10/08/14302340-ex-powell-aide-on-romneys-foreign-policy-team-these-people-make-me-sick
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Known for Captaining the team that successfully drove Al-Qaeda from power immediately after their September 11 attacks and for providing early warning before 9/11...
From 2005 until 2008, Black was Vice Chairman of Blackwater USA, a US-based private security firm...
On April 26, 2007 Black was chosen by Mitt Romney, a Republican candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election, to head his counter-terrorism policy advisory group.[29]
In October 2011, Black was chosen by Romney to serve as "Special Adviser" on all foreign policy issues.[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofer_Black
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince
Romney is recycling the worst of the Bush era and would privatize the entire military, probably...
lunasun
(21,646 posts)yep no benies for vets too
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Cha
(297,810 posts)young_at_heart
(3,772 posts)I really value his strong opinions. I wish he would speak out more, especially about Bolton having a role in a Romney administration----it would be a disaster!!!
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Last edited Wed Oct 10, 2012, 02:05 AM - Edit history (1)
Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/101765592
Cha
(297,810 posts)Vote for mittLies if you want Endless WAr
Skittles
(153,226 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)The real power at State at the time was John Bolton. The usual procedure is that Undersecretaries, especially for the key U/S post that Bolton was appointed to, are selected by the SoS to be part of his/her team. Bolton was selected by Cheney, not by Powell, and had a direct channel to Cheney, Rummy and Feist's rump (and incorrect) "intelligence" team, often keeping Powell entirely out of the loop.
But Powell played along with this farce and that is what I personally will never forgive him.
Skittles
(153,226 posts)I won't forgive him either - Powell sold his soul to the devil when he went along with that sickening charade. The worst think about it was, I knew - I could tell - he did not believe a word he was saying. Fucking bastard. He'll never be able to wash the blood of his hands and I hope it haunts him.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)how no Uranium was given to the Iraq for WMD-Weapons of Mass Destruction. And that they the French government and people, would not support the lying to the world and to the American people? This was weeks before the March invasion of Iraq. Knowing this is why Senators did not support an invasion. Where was the Arab League when we needed them? They decided to let the American people learn the hard way.
If Romney becomes President, Congress will have no control over the button finger. At whose expense? Seems like getting solar power ready would be a lot cheaper? It must be religious corporation that will blow the dome off of the rock. A corporation is a person, right?
Skittles
(153,226 posts)lobodons
(1,290 posts)Its all right though cause a guy knew a guy who said it was O.K.
Volaris
(10,275 posts)and I don't much CARE what the DNC has to pay for it...FUCKING BRILLIANT, simple, and EVERYONE will understand it.
BobbyBoring
(1,965 posts)He's surrounded himself with the same neo cons that controlled Bush the lesser. They would have us at war with Syria, Egypt, hell, the whole ME!
navarth
(5,927 posts)this needs to be viral I think
cbrer
(1,831 posts)THERE'S an endorsement that'll do some good.
CarmanK
(662 posts)The idea that he would come out so strongly against Romney should make every military guy/gal aware that this is an important election for the future of the AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)I am in complete agreement Mr. Wilkerson, the make me sick as well.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)it is becoming clear...
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Maineman
(854 posts)Big ideas are not necessarily good ideas.
Fools are not harmless.
Conquering the world is difficult.
Liars tend to be dishonest.
Testosterone does not solve problems.
Talk tough and threaten other countries; motivate them to make bigger weapons.
When there is war, a lot of people die, a few people get rich, and humanity takes big steps backward.
Beware of fear mongers seeking more power.
Knowledge based voting is surely better than faith based voting.
Beware of people who hear God telling them to make war.
Beware of a president who declares a new starting date for history, say 9/11.
Beware of power freaks (people who REALLY like power).
Beware of presidents who prefer aggression.
Beware of people who do religion but not ethics.
Beware of Wyoming cowboys and Texas cowboys using their brains simultaneously.
Beware of a politician or political advisor who believes that principle has no value if you loose.
A secret meeting between oil company executives and a morally vacant vice president is a bad sign.
A candidates choice of a vice presidential running mate is an important clue.
Sometimes it is important to vote for or against the vice president.
When government helps big business rip off the masses, weve got a problem.
Beware of people who think it is really special to be the only remaining super power.
Beware of people who associate opportunity with having a powerful military.
Beware of people who seek money and power in the name of religion.
When people with radical ideas take themselves seriously, watch out!
Beware of a president whose base is the wealthiest one percent of the population.
Beware of defective business executives running government.
Beware of people who threaten honest judges.
Beware of a president who thinks a budget is just a bunch of numbers on a piece of paper.
kiranon
(1,727 posts)Jake2413
(226 posts)toby jo
(1,269 posts)Neocons beget neocons like fear begets fear.
It's their constant.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)of what we are doing in the Middle East and Caspian Sea Basin, the politics of oil and gas, what controlling it could mean, and the potential blowback.
Others outside the Beltway have laid it out too, but as far as I know, he's the only one who could have been in the room with the principals to know what's on their mind.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)and be embarrassed at the childish lies our politicians tell us about why they invade & occupy other countries.
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