Colin Powell called Dick Cheney and daughter ‘idiots’ and lambasted their book

[Gabi Hayes]

8. so much worse than commonly thought: The Real Colin Powell, from Vietnam thru 2011:

https://consortiumnews.com/archive/powell.html

who else but Robert Parry, who was FIRED from Newsweek for insisting on covering Iran/Contra, when the rest of the MSM was actively covering it up.

lots of articles.....here's one:


Behind Colin Powell's Legend: Part Three

By Robert Parry & Norman Solomon

Saving Ronald Reagan

"We need you, Colin," pleaded the familiar voice over the phone.

“This is serious,” said Colin Powell’s old mentor, Frank Carlucci, who in in December 1986 was President Reagan’s new national security adviser. "Believe me, the presidency is at stake."

With those words, Colin Powell re-entered the Iran-contra affair, a set of events he had dangerously advanced almost a year earlier by secretly arranging missile shipments to Iran.

But just as Powell played an important behind-the-scenes role in those early missile shipments, he would be equally instrumental in the next phase, the scandal's containment.

His skillful handling of the media and Congress would earn him the gratitude of Reagan-Bush insiders and lift Powell into the top levels of the Republican Party.

https://consortiumnews.com/2000/122200a.html