Powell gone?

That's like a football manager getting a vote of full confidence from the club's board.

 

Powell is just not a very good liar. Who do you think will replace him? William Kristol? Lewis Libby? Paul Wolfowitz? Richard Perle?

After typing that, I really hope he stays.

 

This has been going on for a while and Bush has always expressed confidence in Colin Powell. I advise liberals not to draw to much excitement from this.

 

Trust me. As a liberal, the absolute last person I want leaving this administration is Colin Powell.

 

Powell has too much power. He'll only leave if he chooses to do so.

 

1. I find it very disturbing that he referenced polls on his performance in his answer.
2. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see how this came up. Maybe he was asked a direct question, in which case he pretty much had to answer as he did.

Well, either that, or laugh it off. But then someone might spin that as a non-denial denial.

 

I could see him doing it after the war.

 

The one person I do like in this administration is Powell. This bites. And, IMO, would be a huge blow to Bush - I think Powell is well known and well regarded amongst moderates.

 

I heard this interview on NPR. It was pretty much a direct question. It basically went like this (paraphrased):

Juan Williams: Bill Keller of the New York Times has written that you should resign because your views are not in sync with the president. What do you think of that?

Powell: I am in sync with the president and he and the American people think I'm doing a good job and I'm not going to resign.

EDIT: There's a link to the audio of this interview on this page:
http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1205300.html

This part is toward the end. Judge for yourselves. To me it seems like a non-story.

 

This may sound silly, but why would he resign?
Your Powell bashing never ceases to amaze me.

 

How exactly is "I could see him doing it after the war" Powell-bashing? He said absolutely nothing bad about Powell in that sentence.

 

If he wanted to resign, shouldn't he have done so two months ago?

 

I LIKE POWELL, in fact he is about the only one in the administration I like.

 

So he can start his campaign as the Democratic challenger to Bush in the '04 campaign? It's probably the only way GW will go away.

 

Sorry i quoted him. I meant in general. I know crew dust didn't bash him, and I'm sorry for accidentaly quoting him. I posed those questions for those who seem to want him gone. I think he's done a fine job, and is a big part of what i consider a dream team administration. (Just my opinion so please just swallow that statement and tell me why powell should go)

 

It's scary how we tend to see Powell as a reasonalbe "champion of moderation" among "relative extremists" at the White House.

This is a career military man. Military, as in, "kill people and break things." This is the man who was directed to investigate My Lai, covered up My Lai, and submitted in his autobiography:

"If a helo [helicopter] spotted a peasant in black pajamas who looked remotely suspicious, a possible MAM [military-aged male], the pilot would circle and fire in front of him. If he moved, his movement was judged evidence of hostile intent, and the next burst was not in front, but at him. Brutal? Maybe so. But an able battalion commander with whom I had served at Gelnhausen, Lt. Col. Walter Pritchard, was killed by enemy sniper fire while observing MAMs from a helicopter. And Pritchard was only one of many. The kill-or-be-killed nature of combat tends to dull fine perceptions of right and wrong."

The problem is clear. Right-thinking humans are relying on a psycho to mitigate the ultra-psychos who are in charge of the world's only hyper-power...

Take back your nation in 2004...

 

OK, so who exactly has bashed Powell on this thread?

 

Noah's right. I listened to the link, and it was a direct question. Powell had to answer directly. I'm not worried about this.

 

You actually read that book?....or are you just pulling that from "other sources" Way to call Powell a pyscho....brilliant

 

I wish Powell would quit bashing people posting in this thread!!!

 

Liberals have mixed feelings regarding Colin Powell resigning. On the one hand they will be upset because Powell pushes Bush to the Left on foreign policy. On the other hand if Powell resigns liberals can say they told us all along that Bush was an extremist and even Powell can't work with him.

 

I didn't realize a) you were a liberal (because how else do you know what a liberal feels?) and b) that all liberals think exactly the same way about every issue. I thought you needed talk radio to achieve that level of groupthink

Powell's got a long long way to go before he pushes anything to the left. I've learned to settle for pushing towards the center.

We don't need Powell to resign to make that argument. Bush made it for us through his handling of the Iraq situation.