Reply #181: So why the hell did Powell do it then?

[Hekate]

It was kind of the lowest point for a lot of us!

I didn't know about his My Lai "service" until later so I'd always sort of admired the guy, and that feeling was shot to smithereens by his presentation at the UN. I just couldn't believe an honorable man would carry that pack of lies to the UN -- I knew then that the Bushies had dragged him down to their own level.

As for My Lai, it was some of my vet friends in the peace movement who told me that, and the ones who remember have not forgotten or forgiven Powell for his part in the cover-up.

And his service to the Bushies? As we've all observed, they use and discard people with some regularity. Bush/Rove apparently asked "What have you done for us lately?" and encouraged him to depart.

Hekate