Repositioning
Via Think Progress, The Sunday Times gives us the latest from Colin Powell:
The former American secretary of state Colin Powell has revealed that he spent 2 1/2 hours vainly trying to persuade President George W Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today's conflict cannot be resolved by US forces.
"I tried to avoid this war," Powell said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. "I took him through the consequences of going into an Arab country and becoming the occupiers."
Powell has become increasingly outspoken about the level of violence in Iraq, which he believes is in a state of civil war. "The civil war will ultimately be resolved by a test of arms," he said. "It's not going to be pretty to watch, but I don't know any way to avoid it. It is happening now."
He added: "It is not a civil war that can be put down or solved by the armed forces of the United States." All the military could do, Powell suggested, was put "a heavier lid on this pot of boiling sectarian stew."
Even if we take this at face value, is the correct follow-up for the secretary of state in such a situation really to wait four years and then say, "I told you so"?
posted by Doug @ 7:13 PM
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Powell is so full of crap that someone should empty him out. What a phony he is.
Two and a half whole hours! Wow! I mean, Powell could totally have watched a movie in that time, but he chose to use it to try to halt an unwinnable war. And I'm not talking about one of those short 90-minute movies where the end credits are rolling before you finish your popcorn. I'm talking about a meaty, full-length movie.
But not one of those epics with an intermission and everything, because those are like three or four hours and it would simply be unreasonable to ask the Secretary of State to spend that much time trying to convince the President that the policy the latter is proposing is foolhardy and will lead to the loss of life on a massive scale and the further destabilization of an already destable region of the world.
If you add in the time he spent at the UN using fabricated evidence to promote the unwinnable war that he was against, he could've had time to see a long movie like Spartacus or Gone with the Wind or some other epic about a lost cause.
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