“I wish I had not been involved in it” - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Posted : August 20, 2005 at 2:29 am [America/Los_Angeles]
“(Colin Powell) came through the door … and he had in his hands a sheaf of papers, and he said, ‘This is what I’ve got to present at the United Nations according to the White House, and you need to look at it,’”…”It was anything but an intelligence document. It was, as some people characterized it later, sort of a Chinese menu from which you could pick and choose….I look back on it, and I still say it was the lowest point in my life.”
— Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a longtime Powell adviser who served as his chief of staff from 2002 through 2005
Result: 1862 and counting…
If supporters of this President feel DISGUSTED at moms like Cindy Sheehan whose sons and daughters have already become part of the 1862 and have decided to do something (right or wrong) about it, I have only three words for them: How dare you? Allow me to remind them what Teddy Roosevelt had so eloquently said almost 90 years ago:
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public… Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
- Anand
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