Powell: hero to near zero

I used to respect Colin Powell. Then he hired Fester Armitage to help out at State as an undersecretary. Fester outted the already outted Valerie please look at me Plame. Before finding out it was Fester who outted his wife, Plame’s husband Joe no look at me Plame was so outraged he wanted the ner-do-well who outted his already outted wife “frog marched out of the White House.” “Frog marched?” Is that some sort of pejorative reference to the French?


So Powell’s first step down from the pedestal was to hire a dick named Richard Armitage. Then Richard the dick blabbed to long time Washington newsman Robert Novak that long time do-nothing Joe Wilson got his gig in Niger in large part due to his wife Valerie who worked at the CIA. Now let’s be clear hear. Her covered work at the CIA had long ago ended and Plame was using the front gate at Langley when Fester told Novak the news about Ms. Plame.

In his article, Novak described Ms. Plame as a “CIA operative.” Novak latter said he used the term “operative” all the time to describe Washington insiders and it had no connection whatever to any covered work Plame had done. In fact at the time of the article, Novak didn’t know that Plame had been a covered agent in a former life. Well all hell broke loose.

Joe Wilson, Valerie’s kept husband, needed a pay day and Novak had just dropped one into his lap. So Joe went on his “righteous indignation” tour. Now whatever danger Novak’s column had put the Plames in, Joe’s sewer sized suck running non-stop about his wife's work magnified that danger 10,000 fold. Even then, the actual danger was about a minus 6.

Well an inept special prosecutor came in and cracked the case in the first day when Fester fessed up. But the special prosecutor, Pat Fitzgerald went on to spend 18 months and hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars to nail Scooter Libby on unrelated process crime. The entire time Fitzgerald was rooting around the White House, he and Fester Armitage knew who the real culprit was.

Well this post is supposed to be about why I don’t trust Powell anymore. So here goes. Did Powell know about his top aide’s involvement in the Plame deal? I don’t know for sure but suspect he did. Even if he didn’t, where was Powell when the whole story finally came out? Shouldn’t he have at a minimum issued a statement condemning Fester for his lying scum bag ways? Shouldn’t he have said, “I am ashamed that the leak came from my department. The person responsible for that leak is a loser, and that loser is a coward for not publicly admitting his culpability before so many people’s lives were put through such hell. I hired this waste of human flesh, so ultimately the responsibility is mine. I apologize to the nation and those directly harmed by my subordinate’s lack of manhood. In another time, I’d challenge that fat bastard to a duel and shoot him in the groin so he’d die the slow miserable death he deserves.”

As far as I know, Powell has said nothing about his ddepartment's involvement in the incident.

Then Powell the “moderate Republican” endorsed B-HO for president. Why? Well some far right-wing nut was the republican nominee. Right? Pat Buchannan or someone like him, Right? No wait it was a “moderate Republican” squish – John McCain. If moderate Powell wouldn’t support moderate McCain, who would he support on the Republican side? Sadly, the truth is either Powell is being less than truthful in his claims that he is a Republican (of any description) or he lacked the courage to face the cries of being an Uncle Tom that he was sure to face from the party of love and tolerance had he endorsed McCain.

Now, Powell is lecturing us on illegal immigration. Why, he has illegals running all over his house. First I’d ask, how does he know this? Is he profiling swarthy skinned people who come over or does he ask for their papers then absent papers he allows them to work anyway? And general, why do hire the illegals in the first place? I suspect it’s because they will do your laundry at cheaper rate than a legal worker. So if you hire illegals now and we make them legal tomorrow, won’t that just force you into hiring the next wave of illegals? Where does this do-loop stop?

Sadly Powell has proven time and again that he has become part of the problem. Thanks for your service general, but I won’t be fooled again. For me, you have gone from hero to partisan hack.