"I like Colin Powell - he's a great man and a wonderful American patriot, but his State Department seemed an alien element in the Bush Administration's first term"

that is because they were last on board with the big hoax. Colin Powell was the one voice of reason in the administration, until even he was sucked in and sent to decieve the UN security council.

". . . with blockheadedness like Wilkerson's for chief of staff, it was impossible for Powell to have a rational policy."

"...impossible"?. so let me get this right. You are claiming that because a chief of staff, had a bad attitude that Powell's hands were tied? You are claiming that Wilkerson had more impact on the State Dept. positions than Powell? Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds? Surely you understand that if this Wilkerson guy was such a problem, Powell could have had him replaced with a more agreeable assistant?

nice try.

You are amazing Mark,

Ex-generals, former heads of the CIA and former Chief of Staffs to the Secretary of State are all blockheads rather then someone to be listened to. You can't handle the truth......

I personally am glad in this land of free speech that they are all coming out and telling the truth about what a bunch of BLOCKHEADS are running the country. They'd be un-patriotic if they didn't and the fact that such and so many "coming out's" are unusual should tell you something about our current administration as opposed to the speakers. There is NO conspiracy here...only a very dangerous and inept administration and the 33% of sheeple who still support him.

The problems not the voluminous numbers of "blockheads" coming out....its what they have to say. Maybe you should listen. 65% of Americans must be blockheads too....and the 33% that think the Earth is 6,000 years old are the ones who we need to listen to??? Think not!!!

You are amazing Mark,

Ex-generals, former heads of the CIA and former Chief of Staffs to the Secretary of State are all blockheads rather then someone to be listened to. You can't handle the truth......

I personally am glad in this land of free speech that they are all coming out and telling the truth about what a bunch of BLOCKHEADS are running the country. They'd be un-patriotic if they didn't and the fact that such and so many "coming out's" are unusual should tell you something about our current administration as opposed to the speakers. There is NO conspiracy here...only a very dangerous and inept administration and the 33% of sheeple who still support him.

The problems not the voluminous numbers of "blockheads" coming out....its what they have to say. Maybe you should listen. 65% of Americans must be blockheads too....and the 33% that think the Earth is 6,000 years old are the ones who we need to listen to??? Think not!!!

Colin Powell is a good guy an he knows he's been used as a tool of the administration. He just hasn't had the courage to come out yet...partly because he's afraid Mark we label him as a BLOCKHEAD to.

The term "blockhead" seems to sting...methinks I've struck home...

I didn't agree with Powell, but I respected him. He had the class and intelligence to know that opposing viewpoints did not have to degenerate into vicious mud-slinging.

Evidently, his chief of staff was not hindered by such niceties. And his viputerative spiel just makes his old boss look bad, for being such a terrible judge or character---or unable to discern the complete lack of character.

Because Wilkerson's diatribe is not just an expression of his opinion---it is a laundry list of lies, and/or the presentation of unfounded opinion as fact, which is pretty much the same thing.

The first words in the first line tell us where he is coming from as well as where he is going. Anyone worked up about our decision to ignore Kyoto is going to hate, loathe, and despise anything else represented by this administration. He wants us in the International Criminal Court? The man is truly out of his mind. Just why should we allow other nations, enemy nations, to tell us what to do and have control over us?

He HAD to utter the "torture" manta---it's in the book---but he tried to temper it with "cruel and unusual treatment of prisoners"---unsubstantiated, but again, right out of the book. And vague enough to cover nearly anything. You notice he does not bother to define any of his terms, a typical lefty tactic. So he indicts the Adminstration with accusations of supporting "torture" and "cruel and unusual treatment of prisoners" without bothering to tell us what those treatments are, so we can decide for ourselves if it is wrong. Remember, these are the same guys who trivialize true torture by calling discomfort, embarrassment, and wearing underwear on the head "torture". Who knows what they consider "cruel and unusual treatment"---meat loaf three days in a row?

His whole rant is one lie after another, one distortion after another, and can appeal only to the already-converted, those already baptized in the sewers of Air America and MoveOn.org. Step up, boys, and announce yourselves.

Citing Bush's poll numbers does not prove independent fcts. Rather, it proves the power of negative propoganda.

Think about THIS poll:

http://www.scifi.com/ufo/roper/05.html

ne of my neighbors works at State. I'm not sure of his political leanings - never asked him. But he says that Condi Rice is brilliant. He says that when you pass her in the hallway - even if you didn't know who she was you would think "there is someone important." Fit, confident, well dressed and groomed. She has the air of being a "great" person.

I wish she would run for president.

"Just why should we allow other nations, enemy nations, to tell us what to do and have control over us?"

Are you on Saddam's defense team?
They could use you.

Condi Rice lied to the 911 Commission repeatedly.
Doesn't she know how important 911 was to this country?
Doesn't she realize how much that date changed our country?
President? Please!!

Dav

Just recently Powell said again he would do Iraq all over again. You must have missed that part....typical.

Kahn

Your link doesn't work

Oh - sorry about the link. Its about how a majority of Americans believe in UFO's..... Just to prove how important polls are.

""Just why should we allow other nations, enemy nations, to tell us what to do and have control over us?"

Are you on Saddam's defense team?
They could use you."
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???????????? Oh, yeah, another incoherent psuedo-response.

Okay, Rantin' Robert, let me put this another way, a way even you might understand.

You have the biggest and the best hot dog stand in Podunk. There are several other hot dog stands but because of their bad managment or poor product you are the Big Dog, so to speak. So the loser stands decide to form a Hot Dog Stand Supervisory Group, which can invent rules, enforce rules, and apply any punishment they want for what they decide is breaking of any of their rules.

If you agree to put them in charge of your business, how long would Rantin' Robert's Hot Dogs stay in business? How long would Rantin' Robert stay out of jail? All they would have to do is proclaim that fact must be an integral part of speech and you would be history, RR. Would they do this? Nah, history proves that the weak never try to bring down the strong.

In the same way, an International Court could say that an American soldier defending himself in Germany, say against an attack by a street gang while he was going home from a bar, was a war criminal and the International Court would have total jurisdiction over him. American law, military law, and even German law would be tossed aside---it would be the International Court with the total say-so. Do you really like that idea?

If you truly think that loser nations who hate us should be able to make rules for us and impose punishments on us, please just be a man and stand up on your hind legs and say so. Don't hide behind some totally irrelevant and sophomoric taunt about Sadaam Hussein.

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Condi Rice lied to the 911 Commission repeatedly.
Doesn't she know how important 911 was to this country?
Doesn't she realize how much that date changed our country?
President? Please!!
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??????????? Oh, yeah, same source, same rant.

Dr. Rice did not lie to to the 9/11 commission. Yeah, she does realize! We all do---at least those who want to keep it from happening again.

RR...it is true that some very important information was ommitted from the 9/11 hearings.

For example, what was Sandy Berger trying to hide when he stuffed Top Secret documents into his socks and stole them from the archives?

The 9/11 Commission should have looked into this, because it appears that the documents he stole related to the infamos Jamie Gorelick "wall" between the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and any other government intelligence groups. Clearly, as shown by Able Danger, that wall hindered those agencies so severely that FBI information about Mohammed Atta was not allowed to be spread throughout the intelligence community, even after he was identified as a threat to national security.

It would have been SO interesting to find out why Corelick insisted on this wall. One very prominent theory is that she had to keep the agencies from talking to each other, to protect her president, the venal Bill Clinton, from being exposed vis-a-vis his illegal campaign contributions from Chinese interests and the Chinese government.

"The fund-raising investigation involved the Clinton campaign's alleged acceptance of donations from operatives working for the People's Republic of China as well as other foreign sources. But the Gorelick memo of 1995 prevented intelligence collected by U.S. agents overseas from being used in domestic criminal investigations.

Peter M. Leitner, a longtime employee at the Department of Defense and currently a senior strategic trade adviser at DoD, was responsible at one point for deciding whether to issue a license to a Chinese corporation seeking to buy a McDonnell Douglas machine tools factory.

At the same time, according to congressional investigations of the fund-raising controversy, the Clinton campaign was receiving millions of dollars in donations from Chinese businessmen.

Leitner told CNSNews.com that he repeatedly saw investigations that would have led directly to foreign agents stymied by the wall erected by Gorelick in her 1995 memo.

"The Gorelick memo guidelines created a firewall that protected the [Clinton] administration" from the Justice Department's investigation into foreign campaign donations, Leitner said. "

(http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/26/153933.shtml)

Now, THAT would have been valuable. Didn't the 9/11 Commission " know how important 911 was to this country?"
Didn't they "realize how much that date changed our country?"

What was WRONG with them?

It also would have been valuable to examine Clinton's repeated refusal to take custody of Bin Laden.

Nope---Clinton, Gorelick, Able Danger, Berger, they all got a walk. Do you think Gorelick's position on the Commission had anything to do with this?

Almiranta,

You can soon add "Mary McCarthy" to the list of people who get a walk on their transgressions. Another Clinton appointee left over in their position, another attempt to subvert this administration's policies from within... and hide the truth from the American public.

Try her for the traitor she is! Then give her the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg treatment...

Looks like McCarthy was caught in a polygraph dragnet that CIA ran to stop traitors and spies from "leaking" information. With no eveidence outside that, they just fired her. She probably won't be prosecuted. Hopefully, her debrief highlighted the point that she can't make money from any classified information.

Who was it, John Kerry? that said it was OK to leak so long as it was the truth? I'll tell the Rosenbergs.