Blumenthal's Eloquence
"The White House fears that the former secretary of state will finally tell the truth about planning for the Iraq war." So reads the subhead on Sydney Blumenthal's nail-on-the-head and perhaps nail-in-the-coffin article speculating on testimony to come from Colin Powell.
As Blumenthal says in his August 9th piece in Salon.com, "Every movement, gesture and tic of the Bush administration is shadowed by its past ... As Gen. David Petraeus prepares to deliver his report in September on the surge in Iraq, he is elevated into the ultimate reliable source, just as former Secretary of State Colin Powell's sterling reputation was exploited for his delivery of the case for invasion before the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003, a date that will live in mendacity, for every statement he made was later revealed to be false; Powell regretted publicly that it was an everlasting "blot" on his good name.
"Behind the display of bravado, the West Wing is seized with anxiety. Any rustle in the brush, any sudden noise, upsets the president's aides. As they try to regain their composure and confidence, recalling the glory days when they constituted themselves as the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG, a P.R. juggernaut before the invasion, they know who and what they have buried along the way and fear their return.
"The release of a documentary on the administration's failures in Iraq, No End In Sight http://noendinsightmovie.com/ directed by Charles Ferguson, has the White House spooked ... The film features three former administration officials speaking on camera as unreserved critics of prewar and postwar planning ... Two months ago, Powell declared the surge a near-certain failure.
"Powell is the White House's ticking-time-bomb scenario. He was Petraeus before Petraeus, the good soldier before the good soldier, window-dressing before window-dressing ..."
Positively, Carolan
Read every word of this momentous article at Salon.com -- http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/09/iraq_powell/index.html
As Blumenthal says in his August 9th piece in Salon.com, "Every movement, gesture and tic of the Bush administration is shadowed by its past ... As Gen. David Petraeus prepares to deliver his report in September on the surge in Iraq, he is elevated into the ultimate reliable source, just as former Secretary of State Colin Powell's sterling reputation was exploited for his delivery of the case for invasion before the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003, a date that will live in mendacity, for every statement he made was later revealed to be false; Powell regretted publicly that it was an everlasting "blot" on his good name.
"Behind the display of bravado, the West Wing is seized with anxiety. Any rustle in the brush, any sudden noise, upsets the president's aides. As they try to regain their composure and confidence, recalling the glory days when they constituted themselves as the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG, a P.R. juggernaut before the invasion, they know who and what they have buried along the way and fear their return.
"The release of a documentary on the administration's failures in Iraq, No End In Sight http://noendinsightmovie.com/ directed by Charles Ferguson, has the White House spooked ... The film features three former administration officials speaking on camera as unreserved critics of prewar and postwar planning ... Two months ago, Powell declared the surge a near-certain failure.
"Powell is the White House's ticking-time-bomb scenario. He was Petraeus before Petraeus, the good soldier before the good soldier, window-dressing before window-dressing ..."
Positively, Carolan
Read every word of this momentous article at Salon.com -- http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/09/iraq_powell/index.html
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