John McCain Slams Colin Powell For A Second Time: He 'Got Us Into Iraq'

[Joeybagadonuts]

I blame Powell's speech to the UN for getting me to buy into the invasion but for McCain to blame him is absolutely absurd.








Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is still not pleased with former Secretary of State Colin Powell's endorsement for President Barack Obama's second term.
Speaking to National Review's Robert Costa on Friday, he said, "Colin Powell, interestingly enough, said that Obama got us out of Iraq. But it was Colin Powell, with his testimony before the U.N. Security Council, that got us into Iraq."
McCain blasted Powell on Fox News Radio's "Kilmeade & Friends" Thursday for endorsing Obama for reelection. "Well, I’m just saddened because, you know, I used to be a great admirer of Colin Powell," he said. "We were friends. I think one of the sad aspects of his career is going to the United Nations Security Council and telling them things about Iraq that were absolutely false."
"All I can say is that Gen. Powell, you disappoint us and you have harmed your legacy even further by defending what has clearly been the most feckless foreign policy in my lifetime," he continued.
McCain was an early advocate for attacking Iraq. On Oct. 18, 2001, he spoke about the "second phase" after Afghanistan. "The second phase -- if I could just make one, very quickly -- the second phase is Iraq. There is some indication, and I don't have the conclusions, but some of this anthrax may -- and I emphasize may -- have come from Iraq."
On Feb. 2, 2002, he said in Munich, "Terrorist training camps exist on Iraqi soil, and Iraqi officials are known to have had a number of contacts with al Qaeda. These were probably not courtesy calls," he said. "Americans have internalized the mantra that Afghanistan represents only the first front in our global war on terror. The next front is apparent, and we should not shrink from acknowledging it."
McCain voted in October 2002 to authorize use of force in Iraq.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/26/john-mccain-colin-powell_n_2024574.html

 

[richard_daily]

People like john mccain got us into iraq.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Saddam had the place running like a clock, a rape clock, but a clock none-the-less.

 

[hummermania]

Why is that anyone gives these dickhead politicians an ear?
They are all full of shit, it is the nature of the occupation.
McCain, Obama, Romney, and all representatives open their mouths and lie or spread deliberate false or 1/2 truth statements.
This is the way McCain treats his friends and people he greatly admires (article). Throw them under a bus! Like Powell created the "intelligence" he got from Cheney, and delivered to the UN. What a fucking slimeball.
Shows you how desperate some people are for power. The rewards must be so so very good to behave like that toward a friend.

The best way to deal with these mutherfuckers is to ignore them.
Imagine - not one news source reporting on a politician for a week, and let them believe it will be a month.
Their fragile egos would be bruised and scarred. Some might even take to self-destruction.
How good would that be?