Colin Powell is out. We knew this was coming, but it’s still sad to see one of the few guys in the current admin with half a brain go. To be honest, Colin’s pathetic UN presentation soured his rep for me, but I still thought of him as not fully evil. One less voice of reason in the WH.
<sigh>
If he was a voice of reason it wasn’t listened to.
I respected him till the UN.
According to the BBC
I have no clue who this Spencer guy is, but anyone want to bet on who gets knifed next?
Mutual? Powell is the only staff member respected by liberals and moderates, and he’s mutualled on out the door? Nice way to be a uniter, Mr. President.
Please, please, please let Powell write a book.
Do you think they’ll let him have his spine back when he leaves?
Colin’s lost spine. So that’s what was underneath Bush’s jacket during the first debate.
I’m scared to predict his replacement.
Wolfowitz?
<Sideshow Bob shudder>
I heard that the deal is that he gets the spine back, but has to leave his testicles in the jar on GWB’s desk.
twickster
I thought they had been sugically removed sometime before the UN speech?
Right next to any chance he ever had of becoming America’s first black president.
This liberal never liked Colin Powell. He was a weak, fence-sitting yes-man, even before Iraq. I’m sure it’s asking too much to ask that neither a hawk nor a weenie take his place, but I’m happy to see him go.
This conservative agrees with you, for the same reasons.
Good riddance.
The talking heads are going to attempt to make the point that with Powell gone, there won’t be any moderating force to put the brakes on Dick, Rummy, and Condi.
I say bullshit. Powell’s been nothing but a bitch from day one, and long faces aside, he’s been all to eager to bend over and take it for the team.
Fuck him. Fuck him even harder than the rest of 'em. He’s had his eyes on the prize the whole time, and that prize was being top dog in a big fucking bureacracy.
The only way he could even begin to redeem himself is by coming forward with a few tidbits that get the ball rolling on an impeachment.
Powell is a good man, but he is not a war-time consigliere, and that is what Bush needs. More to the point, Powell was never able (or willing) to purge the State Department (which is openly hostile to the Bush Doctrine).
Well, with Colin Powell out of the picture, I look forward to our next wars with Iran and Syria. Ideally, Bush will stop after Iraq, collect his armies and his card, and pass the dice to the next player.
Condi?
Ugh, I fucking hate that bitch.
Right. He was just a slight bump on the way to totalitarianism. After all, we shouldn’t forget that DimSon himself said things would be “much easier in a dictatorship” – with him in charge of course.
March in lockstep with Dear Misleader! Dissent is treason! Welcome to The Homeland!
You live in Australia, and it isn’t your homeland. Those of us who want to preserve democracy in the US don’t really want to hear your glib remarks about what might happen to our country.
You’re not funny.
You got your facts all wrong. And I was being deadly serious.