Let’s hope it augers well and Colin Powell finally finds the voice that has heretofore failed him and which might have kept us out of this quagmire in the first place.

I wouldn’t hold your breath, nor mine. His moment came and went with nary a peep. Even now he uses proxies to speak on his behalf. He hasn’t the courage of his convictions even at this late date, clearly.

Let’s hope it augers well and Colin Powell finally finds the voice balls that has heretofore failed him and which might have kept us out of this quagmire in the first place.

The most disappointing figure in this entire sad spectacle.

charles ferguson @ 94

With regret, I must now leave you…I have another appointment. Thank you all for your interest in the film – I’m very gratified by it – really.

Keep up the good fight…

Charles Ferguson

Thanks so much for being here today, Charles. We really appreciate your time and I encourage everyone to try and see the film and spread the word.

Thanks Jane for hosting Charles Ferguson. I was happy to see from the thread that his Charlie Rose interview finally was aired. However, it appears that it was truncated, and in general Mr. Ferguson has been eschewed by the corporate broadcast media. Why? He is a counterpoint to O’Hanlan and Ferguson (whose integrity he has questioned in this thread).

This article by Mahmood Mamdani in the London Review of Books: The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency. (There is also a cached copy if the link doesn’t work.) is worth a look.”

yeah, noone is noticing that we are IN AFRICA!!!!!!!!! troops are fighting in africa…………have been for many, many, months……….how come noone is noticing that?

Frank33 @ 27

Armitage has always been a “spook”, and he signed PNAC and he “burned” Valerie Plame, with malice. If he was so honest he would admit how Cheney and Feith “cooked the books” to start the Iraq war. We should not believe anything that lying neo-con warmonger says. There is a place for Armitage at the Hague.

I have to agree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage

In late 1980, Armitage became a foreign policy advisor to President-elect Ronald Reagan.

He cut his teeth on Iran-Contra.

He cut his teeth with Ted Shackley developing drug smuggling routes through East Asia from the Golden Triangle with the help of Bush family friend Felix Rodriguez laundering funds through the Nugan Hand Bank among other places.

The invasion was illegal under the UN Charter, and Kofi Annan said that in September 2004. The UN Charter only allows the use of force in cases of self-defense or with Security Council approval.

The US, Britain, and Spain presented a second UN Security Council resolution on February 24, 2003, that would have authorized force. On March 6, 2003, President Bush said:

No matter what the whip count is, we’re calling for the vote. We want to see people stand up and say what their opinion is about Saddam Hussein and the utility of the United Nations Security Council. And so, you bet. It’s time for people to show their cards, to let the world know where they stand when it comes to Saddam.

Despite saying that, he never called for the vote because it wouldn’t have passed.

What do you think the real reason was for our invasion? Has the administration achieved their true goals?

Good question. I ask it of myself and others all the time.

Hard to believe such rational men took us to war only to create chaos.

We were on track to an authoritarian state before the last elections.