(Colin) Powell (the liar) says US Sen. Stevens' integrity 'sterling'

[UpInArms]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sen. Ted Stevens had a "sterling" reputation for integrity as he vouched for the Alaska Republican at the lawmaker's corruption trial on Friday.

Stevens is accused of lying on his financial disclosure forms to conceal more than $250,000 in renovations to his home in Girdwood, Alaska, and other gifts from Alaska oil services firm VECO Corp and its former chief executive, Bill Allen.

Powell, appearing as a character witness for the defense, said during cross-examination by prosecutor Brenda Morris that he had no personal knowledge about the case against Stevens and had never been to Girdwood.

The 84-year-old Stevens is seeking re-election in November after 40 years in the Senate. Stevens, the longest-serving Senate Republican in history, has denied the charges.

A guilty verdict would make his re-election bid more difficult, meaning the trial's outcome could influence the Democratic Party's attempt to tighten its hold on the U.S. Senate.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN1040731620081010

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Well, I guess it isn't surprising that Powell, the known liar who stood before the UNSC waving a 14 year old college thesis and pointing to junior high school drawings of softsided trucks and swearing that Saddam had WMDs has come out to vouch for yet another lying piece of shit Republican.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Gee, Colin Powell a whore?

Who'd have believed it?

[VeraAgnes]

4. He sure is a miserable disappointment

post *bush administration. He could at least once, get honest from guilt ridden shame of his UN presentation pre-Iraq invasion.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

12. He's always been the token black,

and he's just so thrilled to have been invited into the Massa's Big House, he'll say and do anything, even at the risk of his total humiliation - i.e., his little act at the United Nations.

When he found out he'd been bamboozled, and he resigned, wouldn't it have been wonderful if he'd held a press conference and told the world that those thugs in the White House were a bunch of liars?

I wonder how many lives might have been saved if he'd done that.

He should rot.

[VeraAgnes]

17. he could of been

a contender, a champion..........he chose poorly.

[movonne]

7. One liar lying for another..

[rubberducky]

2. Powell broke my heart when he went before the UN with WMD argument.

I had sssooo much respect for this man until that minute. I`ll NEVER forget how sad I was that day. Any blinders that I had on came off that day. Finally I saw the truth of this man, but it did not help my broken heart. I finally saw him for the liar and manipulator that he truely was. How very, very sad that honor is for sale.

[TomInTib]

3. Colin Powell, Character Witness.

The only thing the lying bastard knows about integrity is how to spell the word.

[orleans]

18. exactly. he decided to bury his head up his ass a long time ago.

now he's just one big asshole.

[lapfog_1]

5. There was a time

when I thought HE would be the first African American President.

But that seems so long ago.

Long before he whored for Bush the lesser.

And you just can't get the reputation back. Last person in the world I would put on the stand as a "character witness" for me.

[springbay]

6. You know, I had hopes for him. It's sad to see that he not only

spoke for Stevens, but he is missing a prime opportunity to redeem himself by endorsing Obama. I thought him better than that.

[ColoradoMagician]

8. Powell is a traitor to the USA

It is dishonorable to lie to the world with a little vial of fake anthrax in your hand at the U.N.

and it is treasonous to the American people to lie their sons and daughters to a unlawful, unwarranted war.

You are a disgrace to the armed services and your country, traitor Powell.

[monmouth]

9. I hear many wanting Powell to endorse Obama. I hope he doesn't....n/t

[Tutonic]

10. He must have buried someone in his backyard. Somebody has

got the goods on the General. He can't really believe this.

[mamameow]

11. amazing

i could not believe this when i read it. it is like asking goebbels to verify hitler's love of all mankind. stevens should have his head examined. but he is 84 right winger. they wear blinders.

[rurallib]

13. just being Republican these days means selling your integrity

Once he joined the gang of thieves known as bushco, he was gone.

[cosmicone]

14. Colon Bowel strikes again! n/t

[Hulk]

15. You have to remember WHO he is speaking to...

These are the same people that elected palin governor....elected stevens over and over again to the Senate. God, I am disgusted with ignorant people.

We certainly have the corner on morons. Shameful ignorance is alive and well in America. powell is talking to "his own people".

[Hulk]

16. You have to remember WHO he is speaking to...

These are the same people that elected palin governor....elected stevens over and over again to the Senate. God, I am disgusted with ignorant people.

We certainly have the corner on morons. Shameful ignorance is alive and well in America. powell is talking to "his own people".

[against all enemies]

19. Maybe Powell has photos of the mobile integrity labs that vouch for Stevens.

[frylock]

20. he should have done the honorable thing years ago..

the fact that he still walks this earth is testimony to his cowardice.

[winston61]

21. Piss on Powell-

this is the same asshat that lent his integrity to Bush and Cheney, then was surprised when they stomped it underfoot and then picked it up and wiped their asses with it. Yeah, he's the guy I want in the witness chair for me.

[unkachuck]

22. colin, are you lying again?

"...as he vouched for the Alaska Republican at the lawmaker's corruption trial on Friday."

....isn't Powell vouching for Stevens a little like Himmler vouching for Hitler?

[Mz Pip]

23. With everything else that is going on

this is what Powell chooses to comment on? :wtf:

Wake up Colin. There's a whole lot more at stake than Stevens integrity.