Colin Powell Says We're Losing the War in Iraq

DeeGeMe · #1 10-31-2004, 04:24 PM

Colin Powell believes U.S. is losing Iraq war

Secretary of State Colin Powell has privately confided to friends in recent weeks that the Iraqi insurgents are winning the war, according to Newsweek. The insurgents have succeeded in infiltrating Iraqi forces "from top to bottom," a senior Iraqi official tells Newsweek in tomorrow’s issue of the magazine, "from decision making to the lower levels."

This is a particularly troubling development for the U.S. military, as it prepares to launch an all-out assault on the insurgent strongholds of Fallujah and Ramadi, since U.S. Marines were counting on the newly trained Iraqi forces to assist in the assault. Newsweek reports that "American military trainers have been frantically trying to assemble sufficient Iraqi troops" to fight alongside them and that they are "praying that the soldiers perform better than last April, when two battalions of poorly trained Iraqi Army soldiers refused to fight."

If the Fallujah offensive fails, Newsweek grimly predicts, "then the American president will find himself in a deepening quagmire on Inauguration Day."

Link: http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html#insur...

golddustdragon · #2 10-31-2004, 04:40 PM

Oh crap. Hand this to anyone who supports the war still. If they don't change their minds, then what will. Colin f***ing Powell! Now, all we need is Rumsfeld to crack.

gldstwmn · #3 10-31-2004, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by golddustdragon

Oh crap. Hand this to anyone who supports the war still. If they don't change their minds, then what will. Colin f***ing Powell! Now, all we need is Rumsfeld to crack.

Rumsfeld is Neocon to his very soul. He will never, ever crack.

gldstwmn · #4 10-31-2004, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by DeeGeMe

Colin Powell believes U.S. is losing Iraq war

No ****, Colin?

DeeGeMe · #5 10-31-2004, 05:07 PM

I lost all respect for Colin Powell when he got up in front of the UN and lied his ass off. And at any point since the invasion of Iraq, he could have stood up and said what he knew to be true to the American people but he was too concerned for his political future and his lucrative speaking engagement future to speak the truth. He sold his soul out to the Repugs. I wonder how he sleeps at night knowing how he has betrayed the country and the service people in Iraq.

gldstwmn · #6 10-31-2004, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by DeeGeMe

I lost all respect for Colin Powell when he got up in front of the UN and lied his ass off. And at any point since the invasion of Iraq, he could have stood up and said what he knew to be true to the American people but he was too concerned for his political future and his lucrative speaking engagement future to speak the truth. He sold his soul out to the Repugs. I wonder how he sleeps at night knowing how he has betrayed the country and the service people in Iraq.

People like him and Rumsfeld sleep just fine at night. I think it's a complete lack of conscience mixed with denial.