Crusty, Puppet and the Tool

Today we have more from the former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, regarding trumped up intelligence, his knowledge of it, and the pitiful fact that he did not speak out against it. I cannot comprehend how these people kept quiet while the WMD lies were taking shape. Powell should be ashamed. Just like everyone else who was in a position to speak out before the bombs started to drop. Powell's remorse means nothing to me. Painful, my ass. You, Colin, had a choice and you chose loyalty to a man, over loyalty to your country. Read on from Robert Scheer and Truthdig:

“The CIA was pushing the aluminum tube argument heavily and Cheney went with that instead of what our guys wrote,” Powell said. And the Niger reference in Bush’s State of the Union speech? “That was a big mistake,” he said. “It should never have been in the speech. I didn’t need Wilson to tell me that there wasn’t a Niger connection. He didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. I never believed it.”

So, Mr. Secretary, you never believed it, but you couldn't tell the American people this? Did it slip your mind? Or, maybe, you were scared of Dick:

When I pressed further as to why the president played up the Iraq nuclear threat, Powell said it wasn’t the president: “That was all Cheney.” A convenient response for a Bush family loyalist, perhaps, but it begs the question of how the president came to be a captive of his vice president’s fantasies.

Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, how come everything always comes down to Cheney? That's a rhetorical question. It is time for the vice president to come clean. No more Fox News interviews. No more secret locations. The VP must come forward and explain, once and for all, what his actions were during the lead-up to war and what role he played in the ugly coverup-aftermath. The sad part is he never will. He simply couldn't give a shit. He is a crusty old man, set in his thieving ways.

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