thinkprogress.org— Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has told CNN that Iraq’s violence meets the standard of a civil war and thinks President Bush needs to acknowledge that.
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By those standards we have a civil war in America: Crypts vs. Bloods. The two factions are fighting but we have militant factions in the US also, they're called gangs. Civil War or not we'll be in Iraq so get over it.
If you watch the clip, he said he would PROBABLY recommend that Bush call it a civil war.Powell did NOT say "Bush should stop denying that it's a civil war".Also, what difference does the phrase civil war make? Either way it's not good over there, be it a civil or an insurgency. Who cares.
Powell has absolutely no credibility. He knowingly lied about WMD to the UN. He lied to get us into a war. He did his damnedest to sell the war. That's a crime against peace, folks, not to mention treasonous threat to national security. Colin Powell should be tried in the Hague.Don't tell me he was lied to, I was paying attention to the news and world events all through that time, and I saw the whole trainwreck. Powell was not lied to, instead he was one of the chief water-carriers of the Bush administration's prolong propaganda campaign to sell the war. Remember the ridiculous bio weapons trailer models and anthrax vials?Powell got where he was because he can be trusted to sell the lie. A craven opportunist. Remember he was also involved in the cover-up of the Me-lai massacre in the Vietnam war.
atb12688Nov 29, 2006
By those standards we have a civil war in America: Crypts vs. Bloods. The two factions are fighting but we have militant factions in the US also, they're called gangs. Civil War or not we'll be in Iraq so get over it.
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charlescheeseNov 30, 2006
If you watch the clip, he said he would PROBABLY recommend that Bush call it a civil war.Powell did NOT say "Bush should stop denying that it's a civil war".Also, what difference does the phrase civil war make? Either way it's not good over there, be it a civil or an insurgency. Who cares.
charlescheeseNov 30, 2006
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wafflekaffeNov 30, 2006
Powell has absolutely no credibility. He knowingly lied about WMD to the UN. He lied to get us into a war. He did his damnedest to sell the war. That's a crime against peace, folks, not to mention treasonous threat to national security. Colin Powell should be tried in the Hague.Don't tell me he was lied to, I was paying attention to the news and world events all through that time, and I saw the whole trainwreck. Powell was not lied to, instead he was one of the chief water-carriers of the Bush administration's prolong propaganda campaign to sell the war. Remember the ridiculous bio weapons trailer models and anthrax vials?Powell got where he was because he can be trusted to sell the lie. A craven opportunist. Remember he was also involved in the cover-up of the Me-lai massacre in the Vietnam war.
mynameissimpsonNov 30, 2006
@karelianThe truth often gets buried here and in life in general.
lastvisibledogNov 30, 2006
...based on hearsay. Get a clue Moonbats - ThinkProgress is a propaganda forum.