Colin Powell was/is a dirtbag.

[Postman]

He should be ashamed of himself.

A military man, who touted his love for his vaunted troops, who eventually took a big steaming crap on them..

Look at Iraq, General. You helped create this major fu*k-up.

May you burn in hell, scumbag.

[chixydix]

1. It is amazing to me that he hasn't come clean and apologized.

But thinking about it, his family would probably be in mortal danger if he did...

[rhett o rick]

10. Many like him think they are above the rest and their lies are for the greater good. They

have no remorse for the dead because they feel those that die are mere pawns.

[malaise]

2. They are all dirtbags

That said he is a fucking coward because he knew they lied and let fellow military men die for those lies.
What a weak little man - human scum.

[Double T]

3. 'remains' a dirtbag.........FOREVER!

[defendandprotect]

4. They're counting on people not paying attention; not being informed by our "free press" . . .

and they're probably right about much of the populatio --- !!!!

[MadMaddie]

5. Postman but it goes farther than that...in fact it goes back to

Vietnam.

He lied about Mai Li then and he had no problem lying about Iraq before the war.

I was looking for better sources but all of them read about the same.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/colin3.html

[malaise]

6. True

He is a fucking opportunist.

[JohnyCanuck]

7. He has a history of toadyism stretching back to Vietnam.

Behind Colin Powell's Legend -- My Lai

By Robert Parry & Norman Solomon

In 1963, Capt. Colin Powell was one of those advisers, serving a first tour with a South Vietnamese army unit. Powell's detachment sought to discourage support for the Viet Cong by torching villages throughout the A Shau Valley. While other U.S. advisers protested this countrywide strategy as brutal and counter-productive, Powell defended the "drain-the-sea" approach then -- and continued that defense in his 1995 memoirs, My American Journey. (See The Consortium, July 8)

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By late 1968, Powell had jumped over more senior officers into the important post of G-3, chief of operations for division commander, Maj. Gen. Charles Gettys, at Chu Lai. Powell had been "picked by Gen. Gettys over several lieutenant colonels for the G-3 job itself, making me the only major filling that role in Vietnam," Powell wrote in his memoirs.

But a test soon confronted Maj. Powell. A letter had been written by a young specialist fourth class named Tom Glen, who had served in an Americal mortar platoon and was nearing the end of his Army tour. In a letter to Gen. Creighton Abrams, the commander of all U.S. forces in Vietnam, Glen accused the Americal division of routine brutality against civilians. Glen's letter was forwarded to the Americal headquarters at Chu Lai where it landed on Maj. Powell's desk.

"The average GI's attitude toward and treatment of the Vietnamese people all too often is a complete denial of all our country is attempting to accomplish in the realm of human relations," Glen wrote. "Far beyond merely dismissing the Vietnamese as 'slopes' or 'gooks,' in both deed and thought, too many American soldiers seem to discount their very humanity; and with this attitude inflict upon the Vietnamese citizenry humiliations, both psychological and physical, that can have only a debilitating effect upon efforts to unify the people in loyalty to the Saigon government, particularly when such acts are carried out at unit levels and thereby acquire the aspect of sanctioned policy."

Glen's letter contended that many Vietnamese were fleeing from Americans who "for mere pleasure, fire indiscriminately into Vietnamese homes and without provocation or justification shoot at the people themselves." Gratuitous cruelty was also being inflicted on Viet Cong suspects, Glen reported.

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Maj. Powell's Response

The letter's troubling allegations were not well received at Americal headquarters. Maj. Powell undertook the assignment to review Glen's letter, but did so without questioning Glen or assigning anyone else to talk with him. Powell simply accepted a claim from Glen's superior officer that Glen was not close enough to the front lines to know what he was writing about, an assertion Glen denies.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/colin3.html

[Stinky The Clown]

8. This is Retrospective Day

I had a similar post about Rumsfeld.

I hate all these shitbags.

[Riddler]

9. Throughout his career, Powell has always given the impression of integrity,

Too bad it's all been nothing but a ruse for this opportunistic, lying bastard.