Re: Pandering to religeous extremists or showing sensitivity?


"The Todal" <deadmailbox@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"The day after Colin Powell did his show-and-tell

smoke and mirrors...

before the United Nations
security council in an attempt to prove that Iraq had weapons of mass
destruction, in February 2003, the late Washington Post columnist Mary
McGrory wrote a column entitled "I'm persuaded". Describing how Vietnam
"came close to making me [a pacifist]", McGrory conceded that "nobody I
know
was for the war". But something about Powell's performance made her
reconsider: "I don't know how the United Nations felt about Colin Powell's
'J'accuse' speech against Saddam Hussein. I can only say that he persuaded
me, and I was as tough as France to convince."

Pathetic that was too. From then on, there was no more respect for Powell,
as he showed he didn't have any backbone to stand up to cheney. Loyalty is
no excuse in crime.

Two and a half years later Powell referred to the episode as "a painful
blot" on his record - a pack of lies and half truths that has led to an
ever-increasing mound of corpses."

He could have resigned much sooner, but he was too much of a yes man.


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