{"id":2697,"date":"2009-04-02T12:38:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T16:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2009-04-02T12:38:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T16:38:28","slug":"colin-powell-man-of-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/04\/02\/colin-powell-man-of-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Powell: Man of Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Powell <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/02\/powell-maddow-torture\/\">doesn&#8217;t know if torture is &#8220;criminal&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Powell also questioned whether tactics like sleep deprivation, stress positions, or waterboarding were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153criminal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/18\/usc_sup_01_18_10_I_20_113C.html\">specific U.S. statutes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhchr.ch\/html\/menu3\/b\/91.htm\">international law<\/a> forbidding torture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MADDOW: If there was a meeting though at which senior officials were saying, were discussing and giving the approval for sleep deprivation, stress positions, waterboarding. Were those officials committing crimes when they were giving their authorization?<\/p>\n<p>POWELL: <strong>You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re asking me a legal question. I mean, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that any of these items would be considered criminal.<\/strong> And I will wait for whatever investigations that the government or the Congress intends to pursue with this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I utterly fail to understand why this man is held in higher regard than the other criminals that made up the Bush Administration.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps it&#8217;s just some desperate public need to believe that there was something good about the crew that was in charge.\u00c2\u00a0 If that&#8217;s the case, Powell is hardly the place to look for that.\u00c2\u00a0 The man traded on his reputation to start an utterly unnecessary war that has killed nearly a hundred thousand people.\u00c2\u00a0 He gave cover to an administration that broke laws, ignored treaties, and violated the Constitution.\u00c2\u00a0 And don&#8217;t give me any &#8220;he fought from the inside!&#8221; crap.\u00c2\u00a0 Even if he did, he lost, and he lost big.\u00c2\u00a0 When he left, what did he do?\u00c2\u00a0 Stand up for the military kids that were getting killed over there for his mistakes?\u00c2\u00a0 Tell us that he disagreed with the President?\u00c2\u00a0 Do *anything* that would give any indication that he put country before politics?\u00c2\u00a0 No.\u00c2\u00a0 He slipped off quietly, and continues to engage in the same self-serving bullshit as the rest of them.\u00c2\u00a0 Colin Powell may have once deserved the regard the public held him in.\u00c2\u00a0 No more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Powell doesn&#8217;t know if torture is &#8220;criminal&#8221;: Powell also questioned whether tactics like sleep deprivation, stress positions, or waterboarding were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153criminal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d despite specific U.S. statutes and international law forbidding torture: MADDOW: If there was a meeting though at which senior officials were saying, were discussing and giving the approval for sleep deprivation, stress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,3],"tags":[183,181,182,184],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-personal","category-society","tag-bush-administration","tag-colin-powell","tag-iraq-war","tag-lies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}