# Colin Powell Resigns **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 15, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859 "2004-11-15T15:04:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/1 "2004-11-15T15:04:53Z")
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. \ ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/2 "2004-11-15T15:11:47Z")
If he was a voice of reason it wasn’t listened to. I respected him till the UN. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/3 "2004-11-15T15:12:51Z")
According to the [BBC](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4013621.stm) > [@](#): > > A White House spokesman said three other cabinet level resignations would be announced on Monday. > > One of those is Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham. I have no clue who this Spencer guy is, but anyone want to bet on who gets knifed next? ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/4 "2004-11-15T15:15:55Z")
> [@](#): > > State Department officials told CNN that Bush and Powell decided mutually that it was time for him to go. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/5 "2004-11-15T15:19:04Z")
Do you think they’ll let him have his spine back when he leaves? ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/6 "2004-11-15T15:20:44Z")
Colin’s lost spine. So that’s what was underneath Bush’s jacket during the first debate. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/7 "2004-11-15T15:22:06Z")
I’m scared to predict his replacement. Wolfowitz? \ ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/8 "2004-11-15T15:23:07Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Do you think they’ll let him have his spine back when he leaves? 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 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/9 "2004-11-15T15:24:43Z")
I thought they had been sugically removed sometime before the UN speech? ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/10 "2004-11-15T15:25:22Z")
Right next to any chance he ever had of becoming America’s first black president. ---
**Author:** ![LibrarySpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LibrarySpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LibrarySpy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/11 "2004-11-15T15:26:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/12 "2004-11-15T16:04:59Z")
> [@Rysler](#): > > This liberal never liked Colin Powell. He was a weak, fence-sitting yes-man… This conservative agrees with you, for the same reasons. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/13 "2004-11-15T16:24:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Dirx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sir\_Dirx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Dirx)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/14 "2004-11-15T16:28:27Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > I’m scared to predict his replacement. > > Wolfowitz? > > \ [From this news article](http://www.nbc30.com/news/3918352/detail.html): > [@](#): > > CNN reported that there is a lot of speculation that Condoleezza Rice will be offered Powell’s position. ---
**Author:** ![Roseworm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@Roseworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roseworm)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/15 "2004-11-15T16:28:31Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/16 "2004-11-15T16:35:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/17 "2004-11-15T16:37:10Z")
Condi? Ugh, I fucking hate that bitch. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/18 "2004-11-15T16:40:49Z")
> [@Roseworm](#): > > 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). 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! ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/19 "2004-11-15T16:51:04Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859/20 "2004-11-15T16:54:21Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colin-powell-resigns/274859.md?page=2)