BULLY BOY
PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID
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AS IF THE TOUGH QUESTIONS AROUND BENGHAZI WEREN'T CAUSING CELEBRITY IN CHIEF BARRY O ENOUGH PROBLEMS, HE'S BEEN CAUGHT REFERRING TO HIS OPPONENT AS A "BULLSH**TER" WHICH, THOUGH BITCHY, ISN'T PRESIDENTIAL.
THIS AS THE LOS ANGELES TIMES REPORTS HE "ATTACKED" MITT ROMNEY'S CHARACTER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. BUT WHILE HE PLAYS BITCH BARRY, THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IS CALLING FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN THE TWO MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES.
MAYBE IT'S HARD TO BE ANYTHING BUT BITCHY WHEN YOU'RE BEING CALLED OUT FOR BENGHAZI BY A RETIRED MILITARY COLONEL AND FORMER NBC NEWS ANALYST AND BY A U.S. SENATOR? WHEN EVEN AL GORE'S CURRENT TV HAS POSTED THE STORY ABOUT YOU REFUSING TO SEND HELP AND ORDERING PEOPLE TO STAND DOWN DURING THE ATTACKS? WHEN EVEN ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, THAT STORY IS NOW GETTING OUT?
FROM THE TCI WIRE:
Iran's Press TV also manages to address issues and not resort to 'look at the cranky old guy' nonsense. Colin Powell lied and help sell the war. That's reality. He did a tiny pivot as the press turned on the illegal war. The summer of 2005, Cindy Sheehan's actions (Camp Casey at Crawford) forced questions to be asked. Colin could see the writing on the wall and did a tiny pivot. Which is who in September 2005, he goes on air with Barbara Walters pretending that he was misled. There were lies spoken, but he didn't know they were lies! And it was a "blot," he declared, on his image. As Ava and I noted, he was still for the war, he wasn't calling out the war and he was lying about not knowing -- State Dept staff had repeatedly told him that the claims were lies. He knew they were lies before he said them. Colin Powell is a cheap liar and his lies resulted in the deaths of nearly two million Iraqis.
A few months after
that interview with Barbara Walters, Collie's Girl Friday Lawrence
Wilkerson started making the media rounds, acting a surrogate for a
truth-barren Powell, creating fancy lies for the AP and MSNBC and so
many more but, as Norman Solomon (Cold Type) pointed out in November 2005, it wasn't believable:
Rest
assured that if the war had gone well by Washington's lights, we'd be
hearing none of this from Powell's surrogate. The war has gone bad, from
elite vantage points, not because of the official lies and the
unrelenting carnage but because military victory has eluded the U.S.
government in Iraq. And with President Bush's poll numbers tanking, and
Dick Cheney's even worse, it's time for some "moderate" sharks to
carefully circle for some score-settling and preening.
In his speech to the American Legion -- a group that is interested in the Iraq War (even if New York
'magazine' isn't) -- McCain noted that Colin Powell is going ga-ga in
public about how Barack ended the Iraq War (someone forgot to tell Iraq
-- and Al Mada notes today Moqtada al-Sadr is calling out the continued US efforts to occupy Iraq). That's not surprising.
McCain is right, this is duplicity.
And
it's so sad to see supposed lefties rush in to defend Colin Powell.
Before Bully Boy Bush physically occupied the Oval Office, Robert Parry
and Norman Solomon were writing a series about the reality of Colin
Powell (start with "Behind Colin Powell's Legend"). And Powell's lies did not start in 2003. September 5, 2002, Norman Solomon (FAIR) was warning about the reality of Colin:
Media coverage is portraying Powell as a steady impediment to a huge assault on Iraq. But closer scrutiny would lead us to different conclusions.
Instead of undermining prospects for a military
conflagration, Powell's outsized prestige is a very useful asset for
the war planners. The retired general "is seen by many of Washington's
friends and allies abroad as essential to the credibility of Bush's
foreign policy," the French news agency AFP noted as September began.
Avid participation in deplorable actions has been integral to Powell's career. A few examples:
Colin
Powell was for the illegal war. Ann Wright was at the State
Department. The former military colonel resigned the day before the
start of the illegal war and did so publicly. From her resignation letter:
I
wrote this letter five weeks ago and held it hoping that the
Administration would not go to war against Iraq at this time without
United Nations Security Council agreement. I strongly believe that going
to war now will make the world more dangerous, not safer.
There
is no doubt that Saddam Hussein is a despicable dictator and has done
incredible damage to the Iraqi people and others of the region. I
totally support the international community's demand that Saddam's
regime destroy weapons of mass destruction.
However,
I believe we should not use US military force without UNSC agreement to
ensure compliance. In our press for military action now, we have
created deep chasms in the international community and in important
international organizations. Our policies have alienated many of our
allies and created ill will in much of the world.
Countries
of the world supported America's action in Afghanistan as a response to
the September 11 Al Qaida attacks on America. Since then, America has
lost the incredible sympathy of most of the world because of our policy
toward Iraq. Much of the world considers our statements about Iraq as
arrogant, untruthful and masking a hidden agenda. Leaders of moderate
Moslem/Arab countries warn us about predicable outrage and anger of the
youth of their countries if America enters an Arab country with the
purpose of attacking Moslems/Arabs, not defending them. Attacking the
Saddam regime in Iraq now is very different than expelling the same
regime from Kuwait, as we did ten years ago.
I
strongly believe the probable response of many Arabs of the region and
Moslems of the world if the US enters Iraq without UNSC agreement will
result in actions extraordinarily dangerous to America and Americans.
Military action now without UNSC agreement is much more dangerous for
America and the world than allowing the UN weapons inspections to
proceed and subsequently taking UNSC authorized action if warranted.
I
firmly believe the probability of Saddam using weapons of mass
destruction is low, as he knows that using those weapons will trigger an
immediate, strong and justified international response. There will be
no question of action against Saddam in that case. I strongly disagree
with the use of a "preemptive attack" against Iraq and believe that this
preemptive attack policy will be used against us and provide
justification for individuals and groups to "preemptively attack"
America and American citizens.
The
international military build-up is providing pressure on the regime that
is resulting in a slow, but steady disclosure of Weapons of Mass
Destruction (WMD). We should give the weapons inspectors time to do
their job. We should not give extremist Moslems/ Arabs a further cause
to hate America, or give moderate Moslems a reason to join the
extremists. Additionally, we must reevaluate keeping our military forces
in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia. Their presence on the
Islamic "holy soil" of Saudi Arabia will be an anti-American rally cry
for Moslems as long as the US military remains and a strong reason, in
their opinion, for actions against the US government and American
citizens.
Ann Wright
was able to do the right thing but Colin Powell's entire life has been
about doing the wrong thing, about lying to advance his own personal
interests and doing so at the expense of many innocent civilians. That
has been Colin Powell's chosen path for decades and to pretend that he
is qualified for anything other than an arraignment hearing for War
Crimes, is to be less than honest. The whoring has to stop. Even
prostitutes -- real ones, not press whores -- will draw the line and say
there are some tricks they will not turn. Sadly our sex workers have
stronger ethics than those who compose what passes for a modern day
press.
And Colin Powell sure is a happy
little talker. When he has a book to promote, he runs ot the media,
when he's being paid six figures, he rushes off to the convention. But
Powell does nothing that doesn't enrich his own pockets.
Where's
the 'good' general's concern for those who served? What has he ever
done, for example, to assist those whose health was destroyed by
exposure to various chemicals due to military burn pits? Erin Jordan (Cedar Rapids Gazette) reports on Joshua Casteel's recent death
and how his family believes that burn pit exposure while serving in
Iraq is what caused the cancer. Joshua Casteel is only the most recent
tragedy. August 10th came news that Iraq War veteran Russell Keith had died. November 6, 2009, at the Democratic Policy Committee
hearing Russell Keith testified, "While I was stationed at Balad, I
experienced the effects of the massive burn pit that burned 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week. The ten-acre pit was located in the northwest corner
of the base. An acrid, dark black smoke from the pit would accumulate
and hang low over the base for weeks at a time. Every spot on the base
was touched by smoke from the pit; everyone who served at the base was
exposed to the smoke. It was almost impossible to escape, even in our
living units." May 17th,
it was Iraq War veteran Dominick J. Ligouri. If Colin Powell gave a
damn about anyone other than himself -- even only in recent years -- he
would be doing something to speak out and raise awareness on an issue
that mattered. But as he churns out one co (ghost) - written book after
another, it's all about enriching his own pockets.
Even
now, in the face of what his lies have caused, he can only think about
enriching his own pockets. Last night, Iraq War veteran Ross Caputi (Guardian) observed:
Four new studies on the health crisis in Fallujah have been published in the last three months. Yet, one of the most severe public health crises in history, for which the US military may be to blame, receives no attention in the United States.
Ever
since two major US-led assaults destroyed the Iraqi city of Fallujah in
2004, Fallujans have witnessed dramatic increases in rates of cancers,
birth defects and infant mortality in their city. Dr Chris Busby, the
author and co-author of two studies on the Fallujah heath crisis, has
called this "the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever
studied".
In the years since the 2004 sieges, Fallujah was the most heavily guarded city in all of Iraq. All movement in and out of Fallujah was monitored by the occupying forces. The security situation
made it nearly impossible to get word out about Fallujans' nascent
health crisis. One of the first attempts to report on the crisis was at
the seventh session of the UN Human Rights Council in the form of the
report, Prohibited Weapons Crisis: The Effects of Pollution on the Public Health in Fallujah by Dr Muhamad Al-Darraji. This report was largely ignored. It wasn't until the first major study on the health crisis was published in 2010 that the issue received mainstream media attention in the UK and Europe.
To
this day, though, there has yet to be an article published in a major
US newspaper, or a moment on a mainstream American TV news network,
devoted to the health crisis in Fallujah. The US government has made no
statements on the issue, and the American public remains largely
uninformed about the indiscriminate harm that our military may have
caused.
All the dead, all the
wounded, all the blood on the hands of liars like Colin Powell but
because he rushed to endorse Barack Obama, some media whores want to
pretend like he's someone to listen to and not someone to be tossed
behind bars?
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