Powell criticises Bush on Iraq (in an Aussie magazine ofcourse)

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Powell criticises Bush on Iraq
Geoff Elliott, Washington correspondent
01apr05

FORMER US secretary of state Colin Powell claims he is "furious and angry" about being misinformed over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and has criticised George W.Bush and Donald Rumsfeld for their clumsy rhetoric in the lead-up to the war.

In a candid magazine interview, Mr Powell hinted that his infamous testimony to the UN Security Council in February 2003, when he built the case for the coalition invasion of Iraq, left him a political lame duck.
"Hundreds of millions followed it on television," Mr Powell said of his testimony. "I will always be the one who presented it.

"I have to live with that."

....the Stern interview is his most candid yet, also extending his criticism to Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who angered Europeans when he used the phrase "old Europe" as trans-Atlantic tensions rose over Iraq.

"We were sometimes too loud, too direct, perhaps we made too much noise," Mr Powell said. "That certainly shocked the Europeans sometimes -- words like 'Old Europe'."

He said that the rhetoric of Mr Rumsfeld "contributed to pitting European public opinion against us".

read rest here:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,12718206,00.html

It's a little late, Powell! Where was your conscience during the campaign, you coward!

[whistle]

1. So, if Colin Powell knew that he was being asked to mislead...

...the American people and the rest of the world, why did he not just refuse to do it and resign?

[thereismore]

2. I wish there was a transcript n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Oowell could redeem some of his sorry ass if he were to come fully clean

and tell what **really** happened. He'd still be a fucking shitbag, but less of a fucking shitgbag than he is now.

[cestpaspossible]

4. Powell is known the world over as a liar.

As he points out, hundreds of millions of people watched him lie to the UN.

And now, abandoned by his neo-con masters, he is turned out of the house.

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