{"id":5717,"date":"2011-08-29T00:39:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T07:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5717"},"modified":"2011-08-29T00:39:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T07:39:31","slug":"powell-fights-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/29\/powell-fights-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Powell Fights Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

From what I have seen and read, Deferment Dick Cheney\u2019s new book takes several shots at Colin Powell, because, toward the end of his service and afterwards, Powell has refused to goose-step to the party line.  To be clear, the image of Colin Powell, standing before the UN, parroting propaganda, that even I knew was not true, to justify Bush\u2019s Republican war for oil and conquest, is irrevocably burned into my mind.  After that, he still has miles to go to regain credibility in my view.  However, I\u2019m clad to see that he is pushing back against Cheney\u2019s obvious lies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"29colin-powell\"Former vice president Dick Cheney has claimed that people are going to be shocked by his new book, but former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that the tome was just full of "cheap shots."<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cheney told NBC’s Jamie Gangel<\/a> last week that there would be "heads exploding all over Washington" when his new memoir "In My Time" was released.<\/p>\n

"My head isn’t exploding and I haven’t noticed any other heads exploding in Washington, D.C.," Powell told CBS’ Bob Schieffer Sunday. "What really sort of got my attention was this way in which he characterized it, it’s going to cause heads to explode. That’s quite a visual and in fact, the kind of headline I would expect to come out a gossip column, that’s the kind of headline you might see one of the supermarket tabloids write<\/strong>."<\/p>\n

"It was not the kind of headline I would have expected to come from a former Vice President of the United States of America. Mr. Cheney had a long and distinguished career and I hope his book that’s what he would focus on, not these cheap shots that he’s taking at me and other members of the administration who served to the best of our ability for President Bush\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The video provides more detail.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I hope that Powell continues to rehabilitate himself.  When he jumped on the Republican bandwagon he shattered an exemplary career.<\/font><\/p>\n

As for Cheney, to improve our balance of trade, let\u2019s export him to The Hague.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From what I have seen and read, Deferment Dick Cheney\u2019s new book takes several shots at Colin Powell, because, toward the end of his service and afterwards, Powell has refused to goose-step to the party line.  To be clear, the image of Colin Powell, standing before the UN, parroting propaganda, that even I knew was […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}