Colin Powell is wanting answers: Ex-secretary of state Colin Powell called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain how he was given unreliable information which proved key to the US case for invading Iraq, the Guardian reported Wednesday. Powell’s landmark speech to the United Nations on February 5, 2003, cited intelligence about Iraq leader Saddam […]
Former Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) has jumped on board with Obama. It’s amazing the number of Republicans who have come out and publicly supported Obama now. Even more telling is that only one of them was black, Colin Powell, and he was ridiculed by his own party for endorsing Obama strictly on race. This just […]
Think Progress reminds us that today is the fifth anniversary of Colin Powell’s big speech to the U.N. about Iraq’s (non-existent) WMD program. What I find interesting is how Powell seemed to have changed his tune about a year ago saying he should have never made that speech. When I saw Powell speak a couple […]
Why? I don’t know. It’s free and there is nothing better to do. It might be interesting. I try to catch all the big wigs when they come to speak at Miami University.
On the same day that the Iraq Study Group offered its assessment on the deteriorating conditions in the Middle East, former Secretary of State Colin Powell called the conflict a civil war, joining a growing chorus of those who eschew the more benign-sounding “sectarian violence” terminology preferred by the Bush administration. “It looks like, smells […]
Raw Story brings us this: report filed by CNN claims that former Secretary of State Colin Powell has said that President Bush must accept that Iraq has descended into civil war. “Powell says he thinks we can call it a civil war,” Cable News Network’s Hala Gorani, reporting from Dubai, said today. Powell also reportedly […]
Five more soldiers were killed in Iraq today, bringing the October’s toll to 96 soldiers lost. The last time we had this many soldiers killed in Iraq in one month was last October, and that number is certain to go higher. Sidney Blumenthal also has an interesting piece up at Salon regarding Bush and the […]
Yesterday North Korea called Condi Rice a ‘imbecile’. Today, the ultra-conservative Insight Magazine is calling her incompetent and calling on Bush to replace her: Conservative national security allies of President Bush are in revolt against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying that she is incompetent and has reversed the administration’s national security and foreign policy […]
Last night I went on a little rant about Colin Powell and why he waited so long to come forward with his complaints regarding Iraq. I said I felt that he had some “internal pressure” that may have prevented it and that should be an enormous alarming bell to Congress. Now those feelings are even […]
First he said he never believed the presentation he gave to the U.N. in 2003. Now he says he wanted more troops for the initial invasion of Iraq: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday defended the Bush administration’s Iraq war planning after her predecessor, Colin Powell, said he had made a case to […]