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Colin Powell on Cheney’s Book: He‘s Taking ’Cheap Shots’

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell hit back at Dick Cheney’s upcoming book, accusing the former vice president of taking “cheap shots” at him and other members of the administration.

Among them, Powell said, is the way Cheney tried to blame him and former State Department official Richard Armitage for the Valerie Plame affair, in which former CIA operative Plame’s name was revealed to columnist Robert Novak and published in the Washington Post.

If Cheney and other White House operatives had been more forthcoming during the FBI investigation, Powell said, “this problem would not have reached the dimensions that it reached.

Speaking Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,“ Powell also said Cheney ”takes great credit” for his resignation, when in fact he said he always intended to remain Secretary of State for just one term.

Powell defended his successor, Condoleeza Rice, who served first as national security adviser and then secretary of state, and whom he thought Cheney targeted as well.

“He’s taking the same shots at Condi with an almost condescending tone, that she ‘tearfully’ did this or that,” Powell said. “It’s not necessary to take these kinds of barbs and pump a book up.”

Cheney wrote critically of what he said was Powell’s trying to undermine the Bush administration by speaking critically of policies to those outside the government.

“Mr. Cheney may forget that I’m the one who said to President Bush, ‘If you break it, you own it,’” Powell said in reference to the Iraq war. “I gave the president my best advice.”

Powell also seized on Cheney’s own characterization in promoting the book that “heads will explode.”

“The way he characterized it, ‘it’s going to cause heads to explode.‘ That’s quite a visual,” Powell said. “That‘s not the kind of headline I’d expect to come from the former vice president of the United States.”

With that comment, Powell said, “Dick overshot the runway.”

“My head isn’t exploding, I haven’t noticed any other heads exploding in Washington, D.C.,” Powell said. “From what I‘ve read in the newspapers and seen on television it’s essentially a rehash of events of seven or eight years ago.

The book, “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir,” is set for release Tuesday.

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  • barber2
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 3:02pm

    Wonder if Powell was “leaking” to the New York Times? If he were, that is a sure sign of his bad intentions for the Bush administration. The NYT is a shill for the International Far Left which is about as far Left as one can go! They hate the Robert’s Supreme Court, George Bush, Arizona, Texas, the Tea Party, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News and all Republicans. They have more “leaks” than a sieve and these leaks all serve the interests of their shared International Far Left agenda.

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    • Banned on the Blaze
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:34pm

      He is just mad, cause the establishment told him we think McCain would be a better fit then you. He is mad cause he should of been the first black POTUS. ( he still can, we have a half-er-can now ) He is mad cause he is lost in the real world, the establishment told him he would of made a better VP to McCain then to run for POTUS, and (poof) Palin shoes up. So, i guess he is just really mad. waaaaaa!

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    • Tall Tal
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:41pm

      Powell is a whiner . He is a rino and looks for someone to pass the buck.Most of those kind will not lake the blame for their actions

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:48pm

      He endorsed Obama, so he is out! He is a progressive and I’m glad he never ran. I would not trust anything he says now.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:54pm

      There used to be a time when I had respect for Colin Powell. Once he gave his support to Obama, he lost credibility and respect. It would be one thing for a moderate republican to give support to a democrat such as Senator Sam Nunn. Nunn was highly respect in by the military, and had serious credentials on national defense.

      Powell claimed to be a republican, but then gave his support to a no experience, socialist background, freind of known terrorists, junior senator that voted present most of the time, had a disdain for the military, was against the war in Iraq, and goes against the grain of anything conservative or republican.

      Essentially, Colin Powel reached into his back pocket, pulled out the race card (the fancy one printed on hard plastic), then slammed it down so hard, and with such force, that he broke the table in half.

      He is a joke, a fake, and deserves no respect.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:55pm

      Sounds to me like Cheney struck a nerve.
      Why does Powell need to huff and puff so much–before the book is even out?
      Where there is smoke there is fire….

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:11pm

      I am with Ranger. Unpeel all of the Desert Storm stuff and Powell is just like any other black man. He will vote for the devil if he was black. I used to like him, but now, I have ZERO respect for him. And I mean ZERO.

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    • Ookspay
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:15pm

      Colin Powell has been a turncoat opportunist since the Reagan administration. He is also a racist, he stated that he would vote for Obama because he was black. He deserted GW Bush when no WMD were found and only whined about his reputation being tarnished. Fade away old soldier, fade away…

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:37pm

      Cheap shots?!?! Cheap shops. THE biggest cheap shot came from you, General Powell. If it we’re for your “performance” at the U.N., we would’ve never gone into that damnable Iraq war.
      You were so well-respected — and trusted.

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    • Mr. Vitriol
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:47pm

      The man (Powell) is a major narcissist. Has anyone else heard him speak at those pathetic ‘give-us-your-money’ motivation seminars? The guy went on and on and on and on about how great he was and who’s company he had held and how people licked his ——well, you know..AND he would have done it all day if he hadn’t been yanked from the stage.

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:55pm

      Don’t know if Cheney was taking CHEAP SHOTS at Powell or not, however, after some of Powells actions over the last few years, I can attest to the fact that I’ve taken cheap shots at him, and have even questioned his loyalty.

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:26pm

      Powell just did Dick a favor. His sale are guaranteed to go up a minimum of 10% if not more now. I feel the same as everybody else, he is a RINO. Just as the new secretary of defense is an out right communist. I have no idea how they let Pallenta ot whatever his name is, get place there with out an out cry. I wonder about any of these Repubs anymore.

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:37pm

      I agree. CP is ‘sour grapes’; Schwartzcoff told him to ‘go to your room’ during Desert I.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:00pm

      Another no-good s on of a b itch is Powell’s Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson. I told that b ast ard what I thought of him years ago.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:26pm

      “Cheap shots”? not like we’ve ever seen that from socialist demon crats? eh, Michael Moore? Babs? Colin Powell? Allen Grayson? Hillary Clinton? B.J.Clinton? Chris Mathews? Brian Williams? Katy Curic? et al… yeah, hippocracy… it’s a tough row to hoe. Some bodies got to do it…

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:11am

      In any case, this is all just helping Cheney sell books.

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    • hojo
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:42am

      He likes to blame everybody else. I guess he did have what it would require to be the first Black POTUS.

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    • robert
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:33am

      Colin Powell is just the average affirmative action media hype that was privileged to be around at a time when anything and everything is done to elevate blacks to positions of importance, because the vast majority can’t succeed on their own abilities.

      If he were white, nobody would consider him exceptional.

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    • JRook
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:41am

      Ok so Cheney is delusional…where is the story in that. Oh I guess its an update that the cause has been identified….he is old and confused.

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    • JohnGalt
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:52am

      In all actuality watch PBS‘s Bush’s War, it’s an eye opener. Cheney wanted to pin everything on Powell, ie. WMD’s Cheney hated Powell for some reason. I‘m sorry but Powell didn’t deserve half of what Cheney did. Cheney was the guy behind the scenes pulling all the levers, he’s the one pushed to go to war in Iraq, because his one time boss and best buddy Rumsfield asked him too. No, Cheney isn’t the best of people by a long shot.

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    • Pujols
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:08am

      Colin, You are a Cheap Shot. You’re also a racist. McCain was the type of Guy you say you are but you couldn’t vote for Him because a half Black man was running. Now you’re showing what a one way fool you really are because Obama is The USA worst nightmear. You should hide your face for a few more years. Don’t you respect yourself at all. Standing with Obama is the biggest mistake you‘ve made in your whole life and you just kept talking like Bill ’SICK WILLIE’ Clinton. Hide like Jimmy Carter is now and people will forget how stupid you are right now.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:32am

      Go away Mr. Turncoat .. Obama will need you closer to the elections … get your rest… now

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  • garyM
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 3:01pm

    The truth really upsets those RINOS!!!!

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    • RushEcho2
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 3:04pm

      Dick Cheney probably understated the Powell Problem. We await reading the book.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:55pm

      It would be such a hoot if Cheney switched parties and ran against Obumbler in the primary. Of course he wouldn’t win — but it would give a choice to BOTH of the Democrats who want competence and who love America.

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  • buster2
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 3:01pm

    Your endorcement of Obama and all the people you badmouthed shows you are not the stand up sort of guy I would vote for. Quit the crying, what goes around comes around.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 3:13pm

      Wasn’t it Powell who stood there with his pointer pointing at the board with the semi-trucks that supposedly produced mobile WMD in order to justify to the world the invasion of Iraq?

      With all the castigation the Cheney family has endured, you don’t really hear him whining about it.

      I‘m not trying to stick up for Cheney so much as I’m enjoying Powell apparently scurrying around like a cockroach with the spotlight on him.

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    • Jezcruzen
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:05pm

      Powell is a washed up ******* of the first order. Even the socialists only pull him out of the closet as a last resort.

      GOODBYE, COLLEN! Now, just go away.

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:01pm

      I can hear him whining from my house.

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  • buster2
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:59pm

    Colin Powell’s underminding of the Republican party and giving us the spender in chief Obama consitutes the highest betrayal of the American People. For the offices that Powell held he should have recognized that Obama’s associations with the radical left was not a good omen for America. Sorry, you don’t have any reason to cry fowl, you more than undermined one or two people in your past.

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    • Wayne
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 3:47pm

      Powell Is just another complaining black, they all have to blame someone for something. I guess it makes them feel better, its always a white man.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:23pm

      Have no idea what Dick Cheney said about Powell to make him think he was a target for cheap shots, but I‘m sure whatever Cheney said was well deserved because I’ve had a bad feeling about Colin Powell for a long time. He used to be a well respected man and something happened to him to side with the enemy…….hmmm? was he handsomely paid off? or did the Uncle Colin remarks burn him up? He’s made his bed and he can go lie in it.

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  • patbarker
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:57pm

    Colin Powell was always (IMO) a political judas to GWB.

    His middle of the road stances were a joke at times. He needs to be in the Obamanista regime, a much better fit there. Colin is a lib at heart.

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:55pm

    Powell is trying to protect his legacy and from the sound of his sour grapes, Cheney may be pointing out some facts on a personal level. If the truth hurts, so be it….isn’t authenticity what we strive for? We cannot expect Powell of Condi to self report, so others who in positions to observe their actions or inactions should be the ones to tell us how it was. Cheney is a hardcore truth teller and people hate that, because the truth he speaks reveals their personal flaws.

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  • okbroomrider
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:55pm

    You, sir, would have the advantage of knowing exactly how taking the cheap shot works!
    You are an expert in the field. Turncoat!
    God Bless Dick Cheney and his family.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:27pm

      I bet his butt buddy BO asked him to come out against the book

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:16pm

      He benefitted from affirmative action (small case intended) or he would never have made General. He climbed to the top on the backs of more qualified white officers.

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  • joe1234
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:52pm

    Powell is all about powell…I wouldn‘t be surprised if powell told armitage what to say about plame in order to create a ’crisis’ to get back at bush. he’s trash.

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    • Louie Louie the Progressive
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 3:01pm

      Bush and Cheney can never travel outside of the US for fear of being charged with Crimes Against Humanity

      Case in Point………………….Bush`s cancelled trip to Switzerland

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    • barber2
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 3:17pm

      Louie Louie: That threat is just another one of the messes the Far Left has created all over the world. Like the London riots and those “revolutions” by the Unknown Soldiers! Yes, you guys have brought us back to the brink of the Age of Barbarians. Such progress by all the fine young world wide anarchists.

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    • joe1234
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 3:40pm

      Louie, yeah I know you progressives are all upset about him getting rid of your hero saddam hussein..the guy who fed people to plastics shredders…no wonder you ‘progressives’ loved saddam so. its amazing how many murderous left-wing dictators you ‘progressives’ just LOVE!

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 3:50pm

      Louie Luoie have you read about “The Execution Of Seal Team Six”?

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:01pm

      Louie Louie here it is, check it out. Ann Barnhardt, The Execution Of Seal Team Six. I wasn`t the only one that thought it was strange that so many elites were in one spot at one time.

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  • Just in time
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:51pm

    When I found out that he endorsed BHO. I called him a turncoat. Someone said not really, he has never been much of a republican. I thought Colin got it. But I was sadly mistaken. Don’t believe a word from his mouth

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  • momsense
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:51pm

    i used to have respect for Colin Powell until he voted his skin and not his intellect. Maybe he’s pi**ed because Cheyney’s telling the truth. Sure sounds like it.

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  • Onyawside
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:45pm

    My question to Powell would have been “has Obama lived up to your expectations?“ and if the answer was ”no,“ ”doesn’t that prove you have poor judgement, and your future endorsements mean nothing?”

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    • indy1
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:54pm

      Colin was too whipped to his wife to run to be the first black president. He’s a pathetic wimp who flits around the DC cocktail party circuit gossipping like a junior high schoolgirl to his NY Times and Washington Post reporter friends. He refused to lift a finger while Scooter Libby was put through a trial for leaking CIA agent Valerie Plame’s name when Powell very well knew his buddy Richard Armitage did it. And then he endorses Obama the socialist to be president….What a disgrace!

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    • sweetgold
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 3:00pm

      Indy1 is right. He was a politically correct general and all of his politics were directed by Mrs Powell. She is a hard core, single minded, politically uninformed dem and runs the Powell politics. And General Powell is a wimp.

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  • JohnFourteenSix
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:44pm

    Thank You, Mr. Cheney, for all your years of service for this country! I’m looking forward to reading the book when it comes out Tuesday.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:51pm

      Agreed! I have great respect for Dick Cheney and can’t wait to read his book, especially if I can see what poor cry baby Powell is so upset about. I‘m still ticked he didn’t help Scooter Libby when it was Powell’s buddy who leaked the Plame name. Boy, did she & her hubby suck up the money on that slight of hand, book deals, etc.

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  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:35pm

    Turncoat!

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  • Cherynn
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:35pm

    Collin Powell, the man who stopped Gen. Schwarzkopf from going to Bahgdad and possibly avoiding 9/11 and a second middle east war. Shut up and fade into history.

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  • USAFFELPMAN
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:34pm

    Coming from a man who throws away his political convictions to support and vote for a candidate solely due to the candidates race, I’ll had to question his creditably and his motives ever since.

    And to think he had at one time some support for a presidential bid under the Republican ticket. I guess he had effectively pulled the wool of many of our eyes when in truth, he never ha left the democrat’s plantations.

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    • missionarydad
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:48pm

      Yeah kind of like Rick Perry is doing presently all while pandering to the evangelical crowd. It reminds me of one of the Professors at the very controversial globalist school that Bill Clinton had going in Arkansas for academically elite students. The Professor said by having The Bible forefront at his desk while he taught gave him so much credibility with the students that he could tell them anything and they would believe it. More info on that school. http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/littleton5-99.html

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:46pm

      The jackcrap was always a democrap. He’s an affirmative action grad. He not only voted for Obummer, but he voted for Klinton and Karter.

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  • truthseekerusa
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:32pm

    Last General to admire and respect: President Eisenhower. Downhill since then.

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    • momprayn
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:43pm

      Yeah – I can proudly say he is a distant cousin of mine. He was very worried when President that we‘d have future Presidents who wouldn’t have the wisdom/experience/desire to say “no” to their advising Generals when appropriate & most wise re going to war…..(and when to say “yes”). You can see what happened after he left………..

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:57pm

      I will throw Gen Creighton Abrams in the respect category

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:49pm

      Ike was at best a moderate.

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  • OlefromMN
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:32pm

    “The way he characterized it, ‘it’s going to cause heads to explode.‘ That’s quite a visual,” Powell said. “That‘s not the kind of headline I’d expect to come from the former vice president of the United States.” Truthful statement. It was the publicist and the media that ran that angle. It does appear that he touched a nerve though.

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:29pm

    Sounds to me like Powell is already exploding by running to the media to defend his Obama backing self.

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    • jzs
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:36pm

      Who are you going to trust? Dick Cheney or Colin Powell?

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    • joe1234
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:57pm

      cheney in a heartbeat. powell is a liberal progressive wacko…kind of like you.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:21pm

      Hey JZS,

      That’s an easy one.

      Dick Cheney…….hands down.

      And you put your reply to Speckchaser, over in the gun thread, in the wrong place. You know you never post on the back page. Come on now.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:08pm

      I’ll support Cheney over the back stabber Powell

      It was Powell who said “if you break it you own it.” Following his advice means we can’t overthrow a terrorist supporting government and leave. We have to stay & rebuild and thus take casualties. The the leftists of the world attack us for the casualties. Then Colin supports the leftist president.

      After Colin did that it was like forget what he has to say about leadership in his book. If Cheney had never been born I would not trust Colin Powell. Colin is that much of a snake.

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    • 2smart
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:18pm

      JZS, it’s Cheney by a mile. I wouldn’t turn my back on Powell, that’s how some get stabbed. Go back to Huffpo where they like your stories!

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    • Jim in Houston
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:03am

      JZS: Dick Cheney is twice the man Collin Powell is. When one sells out their convictions for the color of his skin like Powell did, then that person deserves no respect.

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    • jzs
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:52pm

      Colin Powell served his country in the military while Cheney was a draft dodger. He got five deferments from the Vietnam war. In his own words, and I quote, “I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service.” Yeah, sure, so did lots of people, but they went anyway. Maybe the lack of military service, and seeing American get killed firsthand, was why Cheney was so eager to let young Americans take the bullets and shrapnel, and Powell was reluctant. That’s my theory anyway.

      Billy, what’s the “back page?”

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  • michael48
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:29pm

    Pot..Kettle..BHO supporter…NEXT…

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  • ThoreauHD
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:28pm

    Apparently taking cheap shots is only permissible for black people.

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    • momsense
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:53pm

      That and any other criminal activity is permissible under Obozo and Eric the RED, if youre bla ck.

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    • Da Kingfish
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:35pm

      Now this is a fine pair of dick head comments, got proof, didn’t think so!

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:53pm

      Fish, must be one of the black panthers Obummer and Holder refused to prosecute.

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  • redbone007
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:23pm

    Like Colin Powell have not been taking ‘Cheap Shots” since he left office.

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  • Steelhead
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:22pm

    Mr. Powell should know that chicken hawks like Cheney are sissies that talk behind your back

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    • AJAYW
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:34pm

      I would bet that Powell has done a lot more of that than Cheney could or would ever do

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    • indy1
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:57pm

      Yet Powell is well known for gosipping to the New York Times and Washington Post reporters…better try another talking point, lib breath.

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    • joe1234
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:58pm

      I think powell is the one who was talking behind people’s back…I wouldn’t be surprised if he told armitage his aide, to drop the story about plame in order to get back at his enemies. powell is all about powell…kind of like that other war ‘hero’ john (I cut myself shaving in vietnam and got a medal) kerry….

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:58pm

      Another no-good so n of a b itch is Powell’s Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson. I let that b ast ard know what I thought of him years ago.

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  • bikerr
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:18pm

    Powell is just upset He didn’t think of writing a true account of the time. It’ probably because it would put him in a bad way. Powell did his time ,now I wish he would just fade away.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:27am

      We’ll never hear a true account about that time by any of them crooks. That Bush administration was rotten to the core…and so is the current administration.

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  • Utah_Carl
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:15pm

    Colin Powell: the real man many knew was behind the “real man”.

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    • Mango Mangone
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:31pm

      Actually Powell was the man behind Swartzkopf, holding him back, or we wouldn’t have had to return (in vain) to finish the mission of Iraq war #1. Another political non-solution in the tradition of the restraints placed on Patton in WW2 and MacAuthur in the Korean war (er “police action).

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    • psst
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 3:37pm

      @Mango.
      Dick had to drag Powell kicking and screaming to start the war.
      Powell wanted to wait and wait and wait and wait. for some Embargo to take effect.
      All the while Hussein was dong bidniz as usual w/ Kofi at the UN, Russians,French,Chinese.
      Hussein was not hurting for anything. The Food for oil/medicine was a scam.
      Hussein had a pipeline built through Syria where he was pumping oil to one and all. Syria then sold the Oil as Syrian oil. Assd got his cut of course.Ol Kofi and his son made millions covering up for Saddam.
      Ol Powell would not have moved w/o Dick pusing him.
      Powell is a democrat anyway. That supposed r, and no one knew for sure if he was an r until nearly before he left office.
      He campaigned and voted for Soetero. Powell was skipped over many more qualified military brass to his position because of who he is, if you know what I mean.He moved up quickly through the ranks because of affirmative action.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:05am

      I’m no fan of Powell, but too bad he was dragable…that whole war was treasonous at best…and yes I realize congress kinda let it happen by voting for it. That anthrax attack was pretty effective on all of us.

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  • Exrepublisheep
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:14pm

    Cheney would look good in an Iraqi prison.

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