I do not understand Colin Powell

[Cheswick2.0]

How can he continue to support Bush, knowing everything he knows? He's a soldier, doesn't he have any loyalty to the troops and to the people of the USA? Bush Inc passed on his plans, based on his expertise and they went with the plans of the spiritually insane Rumsfeld. They forced Powell to lie to the UN and the have humiliated him time after time.
All it would take is one press conference for him to make sure bush could not be re-elected to reign more terror on the world and on our troops and people. I know he is a republican, but doesn't he, out of all of them, at least have a conscience?

[EST]

1. I have come to think most people have an evil center in

their brains. No matter how well adjusted they are or appear to be, under the proper stimulation, or the right flavor koolaid, that center grows and takes over. I have read many, many praises to Mr. Powell, and thankfully those songs are growing thinner and fainter. The evidence becomes overwhelming. It doesn't matter about his life of public service- the evidence points to his own brands of atrocity in Viet Nam- he now apparently felt safe enough to take part in the systematic destruction of the world. No longer can we listen to the wails of defense for this man: he is culpable, along with the rest of the Bush mafia, in the horror being perpetrated on the innocent. He will never recover and will need and deserve to go to prison for the rest of his life and any public record of supposed heroism be expunged, or over stamped INVALID - world class criminal.

[TrustingDog]

4. I've come to think that the Bushcamp has Dirt....

made up or real, or threats against family, friends - on Everyone.

[wuushew]

2. Powell will soon be irrelevant

Come January he will be retiring one way or another.

[LostInAnomie]

3. Powell is a political coward

He is only attractive because nobody really knows anything about him besides the superficial. Once he would start making waves he would be open for the scrutiny that all others in the political ring are and he would lose his popularity.

[Jade Fox]

5. He's a sad person....

Bush took him on because he was so popluar (and Black) hoping to make
himself look good. Reportedly one reason Bush treats him so shamefully
is he's jealous of his popularity. Petty much?

Powell has nothing to lose at this point. He could say anything and it would
get covered by the press and would carry weight. There is some major
part missing or destroyed in that man.

[Cheswick2.0]

8. I guess I am hoping he is a kind of political Darth Vadar

I keep wishing that he has some small spark of decency somewhere beneath the metal and wires....some remembrance about what it meant to be a young black man in the US Army.
I guess it is crazy to hope that life is every like hollywood. Our humanity rarely wins out.

[TrustingDog]

6. and don't forget about his connection to Mai Lai Vietnam...

that may be the leash that holds him.

[sweetheart]

7. His military approach is a bit wanting

Even before he was sec state, he endorsed a total warfare shock and
awe strategy, and is no good guy, despire the lesser evils view of
him vs. the rest of the criminals in the administration.

They have treated him as their "n**..(bad race word)". He has been
their pet liar and has lived up to (bad word), sadly. He was a bad
general, and a bad defender of the constitution. It is no suprise
that he has joined his racist master in perpetrating mass murder for
profit.

He is nothing but consistent, and has served his master well, just
like so many other good slaves of times past. Perhaps he wants to
set a new example to show how spineless a new-slave must behave
in order to keep his master's affection.

[stevedeshazer]

9. I really think he believed he had a bright future

He thought he had a shot at being President someday and latched himself to the Bush-shit wagon thinking it would take him somewhere in that direction.

From the coverup of My Lai, to his denial of Gulf War atrocities as chairman of the JCS, to the 2000 RNConvention Stepin Fetchit routine (with Condi Rice), to the phony lying crap he passed off to the United Nations, he has proven to be a toady for the wealthy establishment and unworthy of any modicum of respect.

Not so long ago, a bunch of Democrats wanted him to run for President. Don't forget that. I think he is a complete lying scumbag. And that's for starters.

[EST]

11. Damn.

Damn right.

[Malva Zebrina]

10. There is little to understand

I would not waste my energy on him. He is an opportunist who is willing to sacrifice his soul, knowing that soon he will not be a part of it but by sticking with it, no matter what insultshe has had to endure, will bring him money after it is over. Needless to say, he will make lots and lots of money, sponging off his connections to Bush. Sadly, Colin Powell is really a pathetic man and he blew uit by sticking with Bush who has done nothing but show contempt toward him, and that is sad. He could have been so much more. Like most who get caught up in the political game for money and fame, he has lost his soul.

[EST]

12. Contempt is the right word.

This fascist rarely does anything correctly, but contempt for this contemptible man is well deservred and proper-from everybody.

[Gin]

13. he's seduced by power and money....and he is far from finished...

you can bet he will have a cushy high paying position waiting for him.

[EST]

14. Not if I can have anything at all to do with it.

It's high time and past time that we, as a country, start cleaning up the messes that those 'bigwigs' always leave behind. One of those cleanups has to be prosecution and jailing of the evildoers. A thorough investigation and prosecution of such bastards could have kept this bunch of fascist world beaters under a rock and us out of the trouble we're in. We have to start learning from history, dammit!

[mitchum]

15. Plum "jobs" for his dirtbag son Michael

[MsConduct]

16. I've been asking myself the same question...

All I can figure is the bush gang must perform some kind of voodoo on
any good guys they suck into their hell-like vortex....

Peace