Powell says Iraq arms furore gets on his nerves

[UpInArms]

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=453945§ion=news

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell has accused critics of politicising the United States' failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and said it is getting on his nerves.

"Yeah, it does get on your nerves when you see people trying to use this for straightforward political purposes," Powell said in a television interview on Friday.

<snip>

"But the President was absolutely right in what he did. And we were all standing behind him on this one," Powell told Fox Television's "The Sean Hannity Show."

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[moremorfordplz]

1. Gets on his nerves?

Hey, those carpetbombs got on a lot of people's nerves ... and probably made some nerves scream in excruciating pain. If they lived long enough to survive the wanton destruction and indiscriminate terror.

He makes me sick.

[saigon68]

31. It's about time something gets on on MURDERER COLON'S nerves

He is an accessory to murder.

[joeunderdog]

35. Apparently, he doesn't know what all the fuss is about.

"Gee whiz, guys, cut us some slack. We just leveled a country, killed tens of thousands of Iraqis, destroyed the US credibility worldwide, spent $150B and sent 500+ of our own to unnecessary deaths."

And they're worried about poll numbers.

Where is the outrage by Bush and Powell? Why aren't we seeing anger and intolerence for being in this situation? The fact that they are defensive rather than furious about this is the answer to the "What Went Wrong" question the investigation is supposed to answer.

We already have the answer. Spare us.

[saigon68]

53. You are absolutely right

There is no outrage

[IndianaGreen]

34. I think Powell should be committed to a sanitorium!

Powell is not the only one in need of intervention. It is quite obvious that Rumsfeld is quite insane, and that Bush hears voices inside his head.

[pinniped]

36. I already think the POS vp's bunker is rubber padded.

But unfortunately they still let him out on weekend passes to make stupid speeches.

[maggrwaggr]

2. (sputter! sputter!) Hey, Powell! You know what gets on MY nerves?

When a bunch of white collar mafiosos take over the United Fucking States and start killing people and lying about it! That's what fucking gets on my nerves!

And you know what really really gets on my nerves! When they have the fucking GALL to get on the air and say that people are using their anger for political purposes!

Fuck you, Colon, you treasonous criminal piece of shit!

May your legs be blown off by a roadside bomb as you triumphantly tour Iraq!

[homelandpunk]

55. I hope his balls

are blown off during this triumphant tour which would lead to an hour long death spasm on an Iraqi street while Iraqi onlookers cheered on.
But since this "triumphant" tour is mythical and phantasmagorical to even imagine or consider EVER happening, my earnest wish for the above is merely a nice little vent.
Anyone horrified at it can, well, bite me. Be horrified by real horror, not fictional writing.

[frylock]

3. i hate it when politicians politicize politics..

hey colonblow..

[joeunderdog]

50. Political Capital is the only measure of right and wrong for this Admin.

THAT's the problem. What's in it for me?

These people are shallow, primitive and dangerous. They think Pulp Fiction is a nice family drama. Senseless violence is just an arbitrary effect of accomplishing their political and financial goals.

[KissMyAsscroft]

4. Yeah, its a real shame...

"Yeah, it does get on your nerves when you see people trying to use this for straightforward political purposes," Powell said in a television interview on Friday.



>>Yeah, its a real shame when people have photo ops on aircraft carriers...Its a real shame to use the war for political purposes.

These people are such lying sacks of shit.

[AZCat]

5. The unmitigated hubris of these f**kers...

How DARE any of you accuse us of being wrong!
We are in a WAR ON TERRA(tm)!

I really want to see these bastards in prison orange!

[maggrwaggr]

6. here's what gets on my nerves, Colon:

And this is one they just happened to get a picture of.

You like this, Colon? Is this what "gets on your nerves?"

How are you any better than the creep in Sarasota who killed that 11 year old?

[Gemini Cat]

11. That picture haunts me.

That and all the other pictures of dead or injured Iraqi children.
I'm sure that the father holding this child, nerves were more than 'got on' the day he saw his beautiful child die by your bloody, vile bush hands, colon.

I hope there's a special place in hell for this murderous administration and I don't even believe in hell.

:dem:

[Sugarbleus]

12. Profouuuunnnnnddddllllyyyy well said Magg!! eom..

[pink_poodle]

15. Case in point. Yes! -nm

;

[fearnobush]

28. Colon, your so full of shit, that

your name is what you are... a human shit pipe. How dare you, you evil shit, to accuse anyone of politicizing after what you fuckers did to politicize 911, Repukelican Convention in NY, 2 fuckin' weeks before 9-11-04. You are a fucking scum bag. We, all 1.5 million of us regular honest people are coming to crash your Puke party and tell you exactly how we feel about your fucking nerves. We will be all over them. The Garden will shake with our chants. Were coming.

[montana_hazeleyes]

7. How do they say this crap!!???

Lots of people aren't able to have anything "getting on their nerves" because thank's to you and the evil people you are standing with and behind,colin,they are DEAD now.

[pansypoo53219]

8. gee

could that ge his guilty conscious?

[Jack Rabbit]

9. If he thinks its bad now, wait until Labor Day

Colin Powell has no right to play innocent, either. One year ago, he went before the UN Security Council and told one lie after another in order to justify the war. The other members of the Security Council didn't buy it.

[Kinkistyle]

10. I hate it when people point out my lies!

I feel the same way! Whenever I tell lies that get people killed and then get exposed it steams me up when others point it out to me and use it against me. I mean the nerve of some freakin people.

[amren1]

13. Ribbentrop says Soviet invasion furore is a pain in the neck.

German foreign minister Ribbentrop. Hanged at Nuremburg for conspircy to launch and wage a war of aggression.

[Cooley Hurd]

46. Excellent analogy!

He's this administration's von Ribbentrop!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[pink_poodle]

14. I'm sure it gets on that Iraqi boy's nerves who lost his arms.............

every time he wants to wank! I cannot believe the shit these people say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rex]

16. Inhuman beast

Colon can rot with his evil bosses.

[aquart]

17. Unfreakingbelievable.

May he never sleep for the slip-slopping of the blood everywhere: his hands, the bed......

[dw]

18. Must be from all that nerve gas they found in Iraq.

WHORE!!!!!!!

[Snappy]

19. Nerves/Conscience

Powell has neither. He has sold his wretched soul. He is a putrid disgrace.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. Um Colin...ya'll have worked my last nerve!!!

Lying sacks of shit

[JohnOneillsMemory]

21. Powell and cabal know the best defense is to be OFFENSIVE-(spitting)

I hardly know how not to scream until I lose my voice. I'm going to need to be restrained to watch W spend an hour lying on Tim Russert's show this coming Sunday.
I'm going to just fucking explode.

Powell and cabal know the best defense is to be OFFENSIVE-(spitting)
And this man is the putrid mouthpiece the petro-nazis trot out to be their human credential? He's putrefying before our eyes.

Go ahead, Colin. Throw yet more fuel on the world's burning disgust for your utter lack of humanity.

Go ahead and fan the heat that will boil you and your murderous kind out of our nation's fevered and delirious body politic.

Feel the quickening combustion of your soul.
Share with those barely born yet so generously kissed
by your path to success in the white man's world.
Burn baby burn..

[alittlelark]

22. I am embarrassed for my complicity, I hang my head in shame

I have done horrible things for money and power. I am going to become a monk and live out my life in repentance. Please, Please Forgive me!!

That's what the traitorous sh*t should have said.:mad:

[JohnOneillsMemory]

23. Umm...about your avatar...

If that's who I think it is, I hate to point out that there's a certain general with an awful lot of blood on his hands from the Balkans who loves supporting the School of the Americas.

I feel awkward pointing that out in this thread but it also seems to be totally appropriate given the topic here. I'm sorry if you don't agree. I know it is a heatedly debated and difficult issue to bring up. Guess I'm guilty of outrage spillover.

Peace and please consider the parallels. You and I are on the same side.

[alittlelark]

24. No problem. I do see a moral difference.

There was a true genocide going on from all I've gathered.

I understand the military mindset - my dad was a nuclear physicist in the AF. What else did you do w/ a degree in N Phy in 1962? He moved into optics and was on the Star Wars project well before it got that moniker (NM triangle).
He is a hawk who always voted Dem (except for Reagan). He left the military and has been making a fortune in the private sector. He retired early a few months after 9-11. Many, Many high level military and research scientists did - massive brain drain as soon as they started waking up. Dad has been donating $ hand over fist.
He, and many of his friends feel duped. My dad was at first wary of having a possible military president, but as he checked out his record changed his mind.

Anyway, long story (sorry). I've donated to Dean, Edwards, Clark, and Sharpton. I met Kerry at a neighbor of my dad's house last summer in Abq - seemed OK, but quite the politician.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

25. Interesting scene. And I sure dig your signature quote. Right on! n/t

[alittlelark]

26. The brain drain (of rational) military and research

people may have something to do with this mess we're in.

[fearnobush]

27. Big Moral Difference

My Wife's dad, 2 years Korea, 3 years in Nam, always voted Repuke, until these murders stole the election, then the nation. He too has donated quite a bit to Dean, Clark and Kerry. He's 70 and really pissed, More so than I ever could be. Unlike him, I never had to kill people to defend the lies of others. Colon Powell, Prison awaits you!!

[Malva Zebrina]

29. gets on his nerves because

his lies were the most obvious and the most flagrant. Do these people think we cannot read? It is as though they think no one in the whole of the UNited States, is aware of the news and the situation, so any lie will do and they will all get away with it. It is as if the people of the country do not exist. All that is necessary is to assume that seriouos looking face with knitted brow when being photographed behind Bush--as if Powell is the one that tells Bush what to do--you know, like the angel on the shoulder.

He knows it and his response is to get mad at those would expose the fact that indeed he did lie---many times. That way, it at least seems to some who would be intimidated, that one has some credibility and power.

Powell has lost his power-or rather, he gave it away-personally I don't think he really cares much. He is a rich man and will be richer once Bush is gone. All it took was a few years out of his life and some willingness to be used by Bush. Same for Michael. Set for life.

[maddezmom]

30. I've lost what little respect I have left for Powell

his nerves should be shot, after the deaths of over 500 of our troops and god only knows how many Iraqi civilians.

[ixion]

32. gee, yeah, accountability is a bitch

all those questions about the THOUSANDS of people murdered.

It's so hard being above the law.

</sarcasm>

[tabasco]

33. Dirty rotten lying murdering bastard !

Over 500 of our troops dead because of your outright lies !! You can burn in hell you evil pawn. If there is any justice in this country you will rot in JAIL !

[DoYouEverWonder]

37. This man has no shame

and neither do the rest of them. How do intelligent and powerful people get so delusional? Is it because they are so isolated from the real world that they no longer have a clue? Delusional paranoids are very dangerous people, especially the ones that have access to the largest arsenal of WMD's on the planet.

In three short years Powell has gone from being a reasonable human to a total Bushbot. How does this happen to people? Is it something the OSP folks put in their water to keep them under control? Nothing makes sense anymore.

The scary part is when the leaders of the most powerful nation on earth have no regard for the rule of law, then it makes it almost impossible to expect anyone else to, either. When the US Secretary of State gets up and blatantly lies to the United Nations to make a case for going to war against a sovereign nation and the UN is powerless to stop this action, then there is no law and order in the world anymore. This is what Bu$hCo has strived for, for decades. This is the New World Order, or should we say Disorder?



Full text of Colin Powell's speech

US secretary of state's address to the United Nations security council


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,889531,00.html

[JohnyCanuck]

44. Personally I think they must be blackmailing him with something

But that's just my guess.

[macedc]

38. GW(ar is a good issue for us) Bush

That was the whole point Colin, even though some house boys tried to make themselves think it was about something else.

[susu369]

39. Colin: "a pathetic bagman"

personally, I think Chris Floyd's description sums the man up.

[teryang]

40. He's not into body counts either

Lies, fraud, murder, and more lies. Like Kissinger, the other repuke Secretary of State who committed crimes against humanity, after he's out of office it won't be safe for him to travel anywhere.

[SOS]

41. Self-centered egomaniacs

always get testy when their failures are pointed out.

[leesa]

42. What a disgusting person! Former Treasury Secretary O'Neill's

best friends are Rumsfeld and Powell. Wonder what he thinks of these traitorous, gutless wonders now?

[suegeo]

43. If he's looking for...

If Mr. Powell (Mai Lai Massacre cover-er upper) is looking for a little bit of sympathy from me, he can find it hidden behind large groves of palm trees in Iraq.

Speaking of our country's secretary of state, has anybody heard much about that bastard James Baker lately? What's our REAL sec. of state up to these days??

[salin]

45. gee, Colin... the politicizing and trumping up intel to go to war

sort of gets on our nerves.

More for your stature for the record books... The President was right... to lie to the public... to lie to the UN... to cut off international efforts to disarm Saddam (ala UN Weapons Inspectors... and effort you gallantly tried to STOP in February 2003)...

If that is right - are we to assume that the GOP has moved into soviet style totalitarian rule...?

[goclark]

48. Awed But Not Shocked By Colon

For a brief minute the world thought that he was the only voice of reason in this sorry administration. Now,there is no doubt...he is as much of a neocon as the rest of them. No, he is more of a neocon than the rest because he made some people believe that he was trying to do the right thing.


The nerve of him to make that remark!

We need to demand Open Hearings now! Let them all testify in Watergate style!!

Can someone tell me why we can't demand that we not wait until this BUSH APPOINTED panel gets through Bushwashing this whole issue?

Enough of all of them!

:puke:

[Politicub]

47. How the mighty have fallen

Powell was once admired by both Dems and repugs alike. Now he has been reduced to nothing more than partisan hack.

In the article, what Powell fails to mention is that Bush politicized 9/11 first. I live in GA, and it blew my mind that during the mid-term senate elections that the GOP (Bush) aired an ad that had Max Cleland, a triple amputee in SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY, morphed with OBL. Sickening, and one of the lowest points in modern politics.

[Coventina]

49. Coventina says Powell gets on her nerves

Democratic Underground poster Coventina has accused Colin Powell of annoying her with incredibly inane statements.

"Yeah, it does get on your nerves when you see lying sacks of shit trying to defend this criminal mis-administration," Coventina said to herself as she typed rapidly.

"The fraudulent boy-king was absolutely wrong in what he did. My fondest wish is to see him stand trial for war crimes alongside Slobbo," she went on to say.

[Occulus]

51. Clever.

[HuckleB]

52. He should watch his sham performance at the UN last winter.

That's something that'll get on anyone's nerves. No logic. No flow. All BS.

[ignatius]

54. BOO HOO HOO!! Poor baby, tell that to the parents who

have lost their children while fighting this sham of a war. You and your bastard friends are the ones who lied about the WMD's, now when the lies are biting you in the ass, you and your chickenhawk friends want to cry and say it is all political.

Well fuck you, and when your little nerves can't stand it anymore, think real hard about the children in Iraq who you have killed, think real hard about the 20 yaer old soldier from Indiana who died 2 weeks after suffering 90% burns all over his body..think real hard about his pain and suffering...and then think real hard about that fire consuming you for all eternity..because THAT will be your just due for the murders, death and destruction that you are responsible for.

The next time you look in the mirror, how many dead souls are looking back at you.

[rhino91063]

56. What arrogance!

This illegal and evil regime needs to be taken down!

[daleo]

57. At least his nerves still function

Which is more than can be said of hundreds of dead U.S. soldiers and thousands of dead innocent Iraqis. Bastard.

[Neecy]

58. jesus f'in Christ

The shock 'n awe campaign that murdered innocent civilians didn't get on this killer's "nerves", did it? What an empty evil soul he must have.

I'm going to print this quote and keep it with me as I work on voter registration this summer. I'm sure it'll inspire me to register as many fucking people as I can to get this criminal gang of bastards out of office before they blow up the whole fucking world.

[Malva Zebrina]

59. this is all he has left in order to salvage his own self image of his most

important self. He has no recognition as a Secretary of STate and has made no outstanding contributions. He is not capable of making any, actually. He has always been a cardboard soldier. His son was appointed to a lucrative position in the government making him very happy and making him feel very secure.

Powell has not done one damn thing that is notable, or intelligent. People thought he was a sober, reflective moral sort of a guy--I submit that Powell was never that.

I submit that Colin Powell has nothing to brag about concerning human intelligence either. It seems to me he is near the bottom end of "normal" intelligence.

HE is looking out for himself--why else would he be staying with this criminal regime?

Because he has ethics?

that is really funny.

This guy has NO ethics--he is looking out for his own welfare but most of all, that of his son who benefitted from the nepotism bestowed upon him--the rampant nepotism/bribes of George Bush who with one appointee, seized Powell by the balls.

And Michael sits prettily in a nice big office, decidedly attacking Janet Jackson for her subliminal, almost, exposure of her breast at the half time in the Super Bowl.

Hell, he did not get in on Ashcroft's draping of the bare breasted, aluminum statue of the woman in the Capital building, so this is the next best thing.

How wonderful that an extended education will allow these, all of these highly educated people to rise up in protest and anger at the human breast!

, with vows to use the powers of their office to wipe it out whenever it appears in all it's glory!

, in order to justify their tax payer salary.

Powell will NOT make waves and jeapardize his son's position. That is the most prudent thing to do for one's own survival. After Bush is ousted he will be sitting high on the hog and could care less what anyone else says about him.

The son's position comes before his oath, --comes before the people of this country, comes before anything. And that is how it goes with Powell.

[LiberalFighter]

60. This gets on his nerves but his part in the...

My Lai Massacre Cover Up didn't?

[yellowcanine]

61. If he doesn't want it politicised, why the Sean Hannity Show?

That show is about as "straight forward political" as you can get. I had hoped Colin Powell would offset the influence of the neoconservatives on Bush but instead he has been virtually coopted by them. Damn shame. Actually it sounds to me as if he is suffering a little "buyers remorse" and he is annoyed because the critics keep reminding him that he bought a lemon. Resignation is the only thing that will save your soul now Colin.

[dansolo]

62. Powell, of all people

Should really keep his mouth shut. The war was predecated by his "compelling" speech to the UN, that he knew at the time was full of lies.

[young_at_heart]

63. "I serve at the pleasure of my president" said Powell

on TV last year..........made me want to throw up!

[bvar22]

64. Hey, Colin!! Can you remember who said this???

"He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."

HINT: It was Colin CreepyFuckingLiar Powell in Egypt in 2001.

Who gave you your new script?

[0rganism]

65. Cry me a fucking river, you lying murderous scumbag

:nopity: