Powell Says Kerry Wrong About Blood For Oil

[DrFunkenstein]

Kerry has said "no young American in uniform ought to ever be held hostage to America's dependence on oil from the Middle East." Powell, in an interview with Westwood One Radio, said President Bush was not "sending our troops overseas for oil" but to put a stable democracy in place in Iraq that would provide oil to the world market.

Powell said he supported an energy task force appointed by Vice President Dick Cheney, and he criticized Congress for not passing an energy bill. "What we need is a more sensible energy policy and that is what the president has been calling for the three years of this administration," Powell said.

The Cheney plan favors oil and gas drilling on public land and rejuvenating nuclear power. It provided the starting point for wide-ranging energy legislation submitted to Congress.

If Congress passed Bush's energy bill, the United States would be less dependent on overseas energy, Powell said. "We could do many more things to conserve energy and make useless dependent on overseas oil," he said. But, Powell said, because of Americans' desire "for different kinds of automobiles" — a reference to the huge gas-guzzlers that many Americans drive — the United States is importing close to 58 percent of its petroleum needs.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=15&u=/ap/powell_kerry

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. That pic of Russert questioning "invisible Powell" is awesome!

nt

[mitchum]

2. It wasn't blood for oil, but blood for fat defense contracts

The Iraq venture was merely a ruse to shift public funds to Halliburton. The logical (and craven) result of outsourcing functions and tasks previously performed by military personnel

[w13rd0]

3. Powell criticizes Kerry...

...then goes on to demonstrate just WHY Kerry is right to say what he said.

Kerry: "no young American in uniform ought to ever be held hostage to America's dependence on oil from the Middle East"

Powell: President Bush was not "sending our troops overseas for oil" but to put a stable democracy in place in Iraq that would provide oil to the world market

<whaaa?!?!>

Ok, let's apply this same kind of thinking to another statement, and craft the "Powell response".

D-Man: "driving drunk impairs one's motor skills, and is dangerous to oneself and others on the road"

the Powell response: "I'm not saying that driving drunk is wrong, but reducing the number of people that drive drunk will reduce traffic fatalities"

what a dumbass...resign Powell. You've already lost your credibility and dignity, all that's left is for you to walk away with your freedom partially intact...

[MessiahRp]

4. Sounds like Marching Orders again

After the whole Wake Forest speech and the Russert interview it looks like Bush and his crew straightened ol' Powell out. Touting their lines about the bogus energy bill and democracy in Iraq after he himself said the reasons for war were a sham.

Tighten the noose ol' Georgie...

Rp

[sistersofmercy]

5. Hi DrFunk

I'm not quite sure why the misadministration doesn't just give up attempting to twist the whole oil thing, even their own following flock believes it's about oil and doesn't care.

[DrFunkenstein]

6. Powell Admitted On Meet The Press That He Was Hoodwinked By Chalabi

Appearing on Meet the Press, Powell acknowledged--finally!--that he and the Bush administration misled the nation about the WMD threat posed by Iraq before the war.

Specifically, he said that he was wrong when he appeared before the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003, and alleged that Iraq had developed mobile laboratories to produce biological weapons. That was one of the more dramatic claims he and the administration used to justify the invasion of Iraq. (Remember the drawings he displayed.) Yet Powell said on MTP, "it turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and in some cases, deliberately misleading."

Powell did not spell it out, but the main source for this claim was an engineer linked to the Iraqi National Congress, the exile group led by Ahmed Chalabi, who is now part of the Iraqi Governing Council.

http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=1442



Chalabi on the right.