Colin Powell was a major
force in starting the war in Iraq in
2003 with lies about Saddam Hussein’s possession of Weapons of Mass
Destruction. It cost the lives of 4.424 Americans and many more Iraqis. There
were no WMDS.
Now Powell is telling the
nation he did not urge Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to use private email.
He claims Clinton is trying
to “pin” the blame on him for the email trouble she faces.
Former Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright, who preceded Powell, says she “explicitly remembers
overhearing Powell advising Clinton that utilizing private email does make the
job of Secretary of State easier.” She heard the conversation at a dinner party
of secretaries of state.
“Clinton claims she also got an email from
Powell recommending use of private email.
“The journalist Joe Conason
first reported the conversation between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Powell in his
coming book about Bill Clinton’s postpresidency, “Man of the World: The Further
Endeavors of Bill Clinton,” which The New York Times received an advanced copy
of.
“Mr. Conason describes a
conversation in the early months of Mrs. Clinton’s tenure at the State
Department at a small dinner party hosted by Madeleine Albright, another former
secretary of state, at her home in Washington. Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza
Rice also attended.
“Toward the end of the
evening, over dessert, Albright asked all of the former secretaries to offer
one salient bit of counsel to the nation’s next top diplomat,” Mr. Conason
writes. “Powell told her to use her own email, as he had done, except for
classified communications, which he had sent and received via a State
Department computer.”
New York Times
Powell has been accused of
lying in 2003 when he told the United Nations that Iraq had WMDS.
The Huffington Post explained
in detail how Powell lied.
“As much criticism as Powell
has gotten for this — he calls it ‘painful’
and says,
‘I get mad when bloggers accuse me of lying’ — it hasn’t been close to what he
deserves. That’s because there’s no question that Powell was consciously
lying: he fabricated ‘evidence’ and ignored repeated warnings that what he was
saying was false.”
Look at Powell’s record.
“Powell got one of his first
big boosts in the military by attempting to whitewash the My Lai massacre in
Vietnam. He participated in the attempted cover-up of the Iran-Contra scandal.”
Whatever Clinton did or did
not is tiny compared to what happened in Iraq under Republican leadership. And
no one was held responsible.
Colin Powell Caught Lying
Again
Colin Powell was a major
force in starting the war in Iraq in
2003 with lies about Saddam Hussein’s possession of Weapons of Mass
Destruction. It cost the lives of 4.424 Americans and many more Iraqis. There
were no WMDS.
Now Powell is telling the
nation he did not urge Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to use private email.
He claims Clinton is trying
to “pin” the blame on him for the email trouble she faces.
Former Secretary of State
Madeline Albright, who preceded Powell, says she “explicitly remembers
overhearing Powell advising Clinton that utilizing private email does make the
job of Secretary of State easier.” She heard the conversation at a dinner party
of secretaries of state.
“Clinton claims she also got an email from
Powell recommending use of private email.
“The journalist Joe Conason
first reported the conversation between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Powell in his
coming book about Bill Clinton’s postpresidency, “Man of the World: The Further
Endeavors of Bill Clinton,” which The New York Times received an advanced copy
of.
“Mr. Conason describes a
conversation in the early months of Mrs. Clinton’s tenure at the State
Department at a small dinner party hosted by Madeleine Albright, another former
secretary of state, at her home in Washington. Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza
Rice also attended.
“Toward the end of the
evening, over dessert, Albright asked all of the former secretaries to offer
one salient bit of counsel to the nation’s next top diplomat,” Mr. Conason
writes. “Powell told her to use her own email, as he had done, except for
classified communications, which he had sent and received via a State
Department computer.”
New York Times
Powell has been accused of
lying in 2003 when he told the United Nations that Iraq had WMDS.
The Huffington Post explained
in detail how Powell lied.
“As much criticism as Powell
has gotten for this — he calls it ‘painful’
and says,
‘I get mad when bloggers accuse me of lying’ — it hasn’t been close to what he
deserves. That’s because there’s no question that Powell was consciously
lying: he fabricated ‘evidence’ and ignored repeated warnings that what he was
saying was false.”
Look at Powell’s record.
“Powell got one of his first
big boosts in the military by attempting to whitewash the My Lai massacre in
Vietnam. He participated in the attempted cover-up of the Iran-Contra scandal.”
Whatever Clinton did or did
not is tiny compared to what happened in Iraq under Republican leadership. And
no one was held responsible.
#mylai #powell #clinton #iraq
#iran-contra
Colin Powell Caught Lying
Again
Colin Powell was a major
force in starting the war in Iraq in
2003 with lies about Saddam Hussein’s possession of Weapons of Mass
Destruction. It cost the lives of 4.424 Americans and many more Iraqis. There
were no WMDS.
Now Powell is telling the
nation he did not urge Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to use private email.
He claims Clinton is trying
to “pin” the blame on him for the email trouble she faces.
Former Secretary of State
Madeline Albright, who preceded Powell, says she “explicitly remembers
overhearing Powell advising Clinton that utilizing private email does make the
job of Secretary of State easier.” She heard the conversation at a dinner party
of secretaries of state.
“Clinton claims she also got an email from
Powell recommending use of private email.
“The journalist Joe Conason
first reported the conversation between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Powell in his
coming book about Bill Clinton’s postpresidency, “Man of the World: The Further
Endeavors of Bill Clinton,” which The New York Times received an advanced copy
of.
“Mr. Conason describes a
conversation in the early months of Mrs. Clinton’s tenure at the State
Department at a small dinner party hosted by Madeleine Albright, another former
secretary of state, at her home in Washington. Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza
Rice also attended.
“Toward the end of the
evening, over dessert, Albright asked all of the former secretaries to offer
one salient bit of counsel to the nation’s next top diplomat,” Mr. Conason
writes. “Powell told her to use her own email, as he had done, except for
classified communications, which he had sent and received via a State
Department computer.”
New York Times
Powell has been accused of
lying in 2003 when he told the United Nations that Iraq had WMDS.
The Huffington Post explained
in detail how Powell lied.
“As much criticism as Powell
has gotten for this — he calls it ‘painful’
and says,
‘I get mad when bloggers accuse me of lying’ — it hasn’t been close to what he
deserves. That’s because there’s no question that Powell was consciously
lying: he fabricated ‘evidence’ and ignored repeated warnings that what he was
saying was false.”
Look at Powell’s record.
“Powell got one of his first
big boosts in the military by attempting to whitewash the My Lai massacre in
Vietnam. He participated in the attempted cover-up of the Iran-Contra scandal.”
Whatever Clinton did or did
not is tiny compared to what happened in Iraq under Republican leadership. And
no one was held responsible.
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