THE MORONIC INFERNO: not only did Suzy come lately, Jean Schmidt, "essentially call John Murtha
"a coward"", the majority party in the House continues their shameful antics with this: "Republicans are
dredging up months-old ethics charges against Murtha".
But what will they do to this critic? Colin Powell Publicly Breaks With Bush. Donald Fowler Reports:
"History is often best served cold." That's how former Secretary of State Colin Powell answered PBS interviewer Charlie Rose's question about whether Powell would one day write a book on his service to George W. Bush. Secretary Powell's paraphrase of "revenge is a dish best served cold" foretold the other observations he would reveal for the first time regarding the Bush Administration's handling of the war in Iraq.
Well, will they bring out his questionable association with My Lai? I doubt it, he was then, after all, "the consummate team player". But what about now?
And after this?
On intelligence, Secretary Powell dynamited the White House's apparent pre-war certainty about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Saddam's Iraq. He admitted that the conclusions about stockpiles of WMDs were only "inferential" because, he explained, the government had no one on the ground in Iraq....
Powell offered that the President did get more daily intelligence information than the Congress - despite current protestations by the White House to the contrary - though he said that this additional information would not have led to different pre-war conclusions about the existence of the stockpiles. Powell laid the blame squarely outside Bush's war cabinet, saying, "I think the intelligence community let us all down." Yet he also defended the integrity of the intelligence operatives, "These are dedicated people who mean nothing but the best for our country."
On Iraq, Powell was less circumspect. He stated unequivocally that the United States did not have enough troops to impose order after Saddam Hussein's overthrow and that the White House should have been more aggressive in going after the insurgents early in the conflict. Powell also took issue with the elimination of Iraq's military, questioning specifically the dismissal of the officer corps in the process known as de-Baathification.
On the torture issue, Powell expressed support for John McCain's anti-torture legislation (passed 90-9 by the Senate two weeks ago) that the White House is currently threatening to veto.
Why now Mr. Powell, revenge?
What say you?