Gen. Colin Powell and Vito Fossella

Yesterday we ran several comments from retired Gen. Colin Powell on his attempts to talk to President Bush and keep the United States out of Iraq and his belief that our military and attempts at troop escalations can not work to bring stability to their civil war. Not that there should be any doubt about his credentials, despite some very questionable time he worked for this administration, but I thought it might reinforce the respect he garners or at least had on multiple fronts. Via CBS News;

Rep. Vito Fossella of New York said he spoke to Powell on Tuesday and made the case for the retired four-star general to enlist in the Republican Party's effort to defeat Clinton, a standard-bearer for the Democrats.

If Rep. Vito Fossella thinks this man has the intellect and understanding to run for Senate, to vote on bills pertaining to withdrawing from Iraq or troop readiness, requiring they have training and supplies, why does he not simply listen to what is arguably Powell's area of expertise, military command? Powell thinks going into Iraq was a mistake and staying there is even worse. Unfortunately for Fossella he can't find a way to gain a sound bite or political leverage off this man he once admired enough to ask him to run for Senate, to now listen to him. It is time to send someone else to DC who has not been blinded and corrupted by the system.

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Gen. Colin Powell opposed Fossella's Iraq War

This from the Times Online;

THE former American secretary of state Colin Powell has revealed that he spent 2½ hours vainly trying to persuade President George W Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today’s conflict cannot be resolved by US forces.

“I tried to avoid this war,” Powell said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. “I took him through the consequences of going into an Arab country and becoming the occupiers.”

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He added: “It is not a civil war that can be put down or solved by the armed forces of the United States.” All the military could do, Powell suggested, was put “a heavier lid on this pot of boiling sectarian stew”.

So the question to you now is, do you support a retired military General, former chairman of the Joint Cheifs of Staff who is telling the American public that going into Iraq was and continues to be a mistake, or do you support Rep. Vito Fossella who thinks we will wake up one day soon and realize victory in Iraq. Do you support a military leader telling us military intervention and escalations are bad strategy or do you trust Rep. Veto Fossella, whose military expertise he garnered from President Bush.

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