Well That Takes Balls!

But whoever said Colin Powell doesn’t have a set of brass ones? Secretary of State “No-Doubt-In-My-Mind-Saddam-has-WMD’s” Powell who knowingly lied at the UN in order to get support for the war in Iraq is now criticizing the Bush administration for not following his advice about the number of troops needed for the invasion. Powell said he advised Bush in March 2003 to send more troops to Iraq, but that his recommendation was not followed. In an interview on UK-ITV yesterday, Powell said, "The president's military advisers felt that the size of the force was adequate, they may still feel that years later. Some of us don't, I don't." I'm sure Powell’s successor Condoleezza Rice has never once told the truth during her long association with the Bush administration. However, I would love to think she broke her customary practice of lying when she said on CNN,”I don't remember specifically what Secretary Powell may be referring to.” I would love to think Powell never said anything about using more troops and that he is once again lying. That would give Powell's act a kind of symmetry. In any case, Colin Powell has no regrets whatsoever about lying to get us into the quagmire in Iraq and killing 2,400 US soldiers for no reason other than to fulfill the dreams of glory of a bunch of over-the-hill warmongers who wanted to play soldier. But he's mad as hell that after he lied for the Bush administration they didn’t follow his advice about sending more troops to get killed for no good reason. You would think Colin Powell would just slither off to corporate Republican land and become the CEO of an oil company, make lots (more) money and shut up about his disgusting and putrid involvement in the Iraq debacle. But no. He’s an ex-military man and he loves war. He’s no doubt angling for a position in John McCain’s cabinet as Secretary of Defense where he can micro-manage a nuclear war with Iran. Which, if it doesn’t happen on its own, he can tell the kind of lies that will get him into the action.