Barbara Walters: However, you gave the world false, groundless reasons for going to war. You've said, and I quote, "I will forever be known as the one who made the case for war." Do you think this blot on your record will stay with you for the rest of your life?
Powell: Well it's a, it's a, of course it will. It's a blot. I'm the one who presented it on behalf of the United Nations, uh, United States, to the world. And it will always be uh, part of my, uh, my record.
Walters: How painful is it?
Powell: (shrugs) It was -- it was painful. (shifts, shrugs) It's painful now.
Always part of his life? We're not seeing it. The man whose false testimony to the United Nations was used to sell the illegal war was interacting with the government last week and, no, it wasn't the offices of the Justice Department. He also hadn't been hauled before Congress to explain his lies.
He was getting yet another photo op with his War Hawk buddy Barack. The two clean each other's feathers orally.
Barack Obama is not and was not anti-war. He's just another lying whore who has, in fact, continued the illegal war. And he has no qualms about getting his photo taken with Colin Powell because he and Collie The Blot have always been on the side of empire and always will be.
WikiLeaks is in the midst of their release of State Department cables.
Among the Iraq revelations has been Nouri al-Maliki (puppet of the occupation) purging Sunnis from Iraqi forces this year and that Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other neighbor's concerns that the government out of Iran was controlling Nouri.
The response from the executive branch was immediate. Plus-size White House spokesmodel Robert Gibbs, Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton launched attacks (while Robert Gates took another approach). In the middle of Don't Ask, Don't Tell hearings, Senator Crazy Ass John McCain had to launch into a tirade about WikiLeaks. (Maybe John McCain shouldn't be calling for additional hearings on the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell if he refuses to address the issue in the hearings that have taken place?) Leading the arm chair brigade, were such 'notables' as Chris Matthews, Wolf Blitzer and Sarah Palin huffing and puffing somewhere from the outskirts.
And yet, for all the faux anger and screaming, The Liar Colin Powell is in the White House, being glad-handed, being treated like someone worth listening to, someone worthy of trust.
We'd ask where the objections to Barack and Collie were but we already know that 'protesting' the Iraq War was just grandstanding on behalf of the Democratic Party for so many of our left pundits.
If you ever doubted how screwed this empire is, you saw it last week as people called for the head of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks was repeatedly banned for telling the truth while there wasn't a peep over the lying War Hawk Colin Powell being feted at the White House.