bush "Used Colin" wife sez

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/459063p-386181c.html

Colin Powell fought the Viet Cong, but he was no match for the Bush administration hard-liners who "used" his prestige to sell the Iraq war to the American people, his wife says.
In "Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell," Powell's wife, Alma, says the former secretary of state was "callously used to promote a war she wished had never happened," author Karen DeYoung writes.

"They needed him to do it because they knew people would believe him," she told DeYoung, an editor at the Washington Post.

Colin Powell, who was interviewed by DeYoung six times at length, expressed reservations about invading Iraq but never considered quitting in protest once President Bush decided to go to war.

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oh brother

[wakeme2008]

1. Colin has ALWAYS be dirty..

Colin Powell brought you the cover-up of the Mai Li massacre and top his career with the UN speech.

[luckyleftyme2]

2. AND CHENNY,RUMSFELD RICE AND BUSH

BROUGHT US THE MORALLY WRONG!

[arewenotdemo]

8. Agreed. It's much too late for his wife to save the Powell Mystique.

Where was she when her "Soldier" decided to take the Big Bend for the Cheerleader?

I call BULLSHEEET!

[Philosoraptor]

9. millions buy into this bogus bullshit

I'm so sick of people STILL defending his ass as if.

[Bucky]

3. Reporting you to mods... I don't like the sexual innuendo in this thread!

I'm positive that that doesn't say more about my hang ups than it does about your ideas.

[Philosoraptor]

4. My ideas?

[qanda]

7. Am I missing something?

[Connie_Corleone]

11. Huh??

[magellan]

5. You ain't being used if you agree to it. (nt)

[Disturbed]

6. Colin Powell.didn't resign before he spewed his lies at the UN.

He willingly threw away his chance to be a decent human being.

[porkrind]

10. Should be: "LIAR: The Life of Colin Powell"

Sounds like his wife is living in an alternate reality where Colin was a victim instead of a criminal. He was not "callously used to promote war", instead he callously promoted war. No one will believe him now. He should be sent to the Hague.

[Greybnk48]

12. Well, he was on Leno within that past year

pimping for *, and that was after he knew he was used. Apparently, his wife's a liar too.

[Bucky]

13. I keep forgetting this isn't the Lounge but GD, where no one "gets" irony

Having a healthy dirty mind is pretty important in life. The OP reads "Bush "Used Colin" wife sez"

If that doesn't make you giggle just a little bit, you need a vacation from politics.
(Just wait until mid-November before taking it, though.)

[soothsayer]

14. That's not irony, it's a double entendre (isn't it?) or a pun

[Bucky]

15. Considering HOW Bush used Powell, I'd call it irony, too

But yes, it's mostly just a naughty pun.

[Solly Mack]

16. "Oh please don't hate my husband. He was used. He couldn't help

it. He lost his spine and his mouth and his ability to speak without a hand up his ass.Please, please, please don't think ill of him. It was Bush's fault my husband lied to the UN and lied to the American people. Bush is ever so much smarter than my husband that's why Bush was able to fool my husband. No one ever expects a President to lie...never mind Nixon...forget Nixon...even if Nixon was a President and even if he did lie...people still don't expect a President to lie to them because they're Presidents and we have to respect the office and pretend Presidents don't lie so we can keep using the excuse that Bush fooled people and that no on expected him to lie...so that's why my husband is still a good guy dammit!!"


Yawn