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babylonsister

(172,751 posts) Thu May 3, 2012, 07:55 PM May 2012

Whoa. "Colin Powell's Blot" [View all]

Props to him for admitting this.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/05/03/colin_powells_blot.html

May 03, 2012

Colin Powell's Blot

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell writes in his new book, It Worked for Me, that his "erroneous address to the United Nations about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction provides a lesson to business leaders on the importance of staying skeptical and following their intuition," Bloomberg reports.

Writes Powell: "Yes, a blot, a failure will always be attached to me and my UN presentation. I am mad mostly at myself for not having smelled the problem. My instincts failed me."

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Whoa. "Colin Powell's Blot" [View all] babylonsister May 2012 OP

No props. He forgot the troops. He allowed his ambitions to come ahead of the troops. peacebird May 2012 #1

Bullshit. He didnt throw anything under the bus. "fealty"?! forget his endorsement in 2008? pasto76 May 2012 #11

colin powell was the young army officer who was charged with iemitsu May 2012 #15

Powell has been a career lying sack of sh!t. His endorsement of Obama EFerrari May 2012 #26

Powell is lying when he says he was fooled by the information given to him. Much has been written sabrina 1 May 2012 #23

Fair enough, but what has been his response to the people who lied to him... JHB May 2012 #34

ambitions?? grasswire May 2012 #29

piss on Colin Powell KG May 2012 #2

Its like not smelling shit when you're in the outhouse. undeterred May 2012 #3

+1 Canuckistanian May 2012 #8

Great analogy lunatica May 2012 #33

millions of others had better instincts than Powell on this one. Whisp May 2012 #4

Erroneous? Iggo May 2012 #5

Dang. I wonder what happened at Mai Lia hootinholler May 2012 #6

Three strikes Colin .. underpants May 2012 #7

Man, I didn't know about the Guernica thing. That, along with covering the Statue of Lady Justice TrollBuster9090 May 2012 #10

Are you sure about that third item? Sanity Claws May 2012 #14

there is a tapestry reproduction at the UN justabob May 2012 #19

What is #2 a reference to? I share your assessment of Powell, but I'm coalition_unwilling May 2012 #24

Iran-Contra underpants May 2012 #32

Yeah, the point is, they sent Powell to the UN *BECAUSE* the world community believed him to be TrollBuster9090 May 2012 #9

Powell Can't Get Away With This DallasNE May 2012 #12

A "blot"? I'd say that's just a little bit of an understatement. Crunchy Frog May 2012 #13

It's like the Powell Doctrine never existed.. Fumesucker May 2012 #16

it was a terminal blot on the lives of how many thousand soldiers? spanone May 2012 #17

A blot? "Oh my, I appear to have gotten a drop of spaghetti sauce on my tie." tclambert May 2012 #18

"Before the smoking gun becomes a mushroom cloud." jerseyjack May 2012 #20

A blot? What about the blood on your hands, mr. powell? Skip Intro May 2012 #21

Eight years and 11 months later gratuitous May 2012 #22

Before he answers for those crimes, there's the little matter of survivors coalition_unwilling May 2012 #25

He's talking like he's on trial lutefisk May 2012 #27

He is a coward and a liar JFN1 May 2012 #28

Boy, did you ever open yourself up to a hailstorm for expressing a simple opinion...While I didn't Rowdyboy May 2012 #30

Really! Good thing I've developed a thick skin... babylonsister May 2012 #31

That's quite a blot given that it helped destroy thousands of American families ... GOTV May 2012 #35

"It worked for Me". GeorgeGist May 2012 #36