5 Years Ago Today, Colin Powell Addressed the UN

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5 Years Ago Today, Colin Powell Addressed the UN

Posted: 2/5/08 at 5:50pm

5 years ago he made the case for the war in Iraq.

Did you believe him then?

If yes, do you still believe the war was the right thing to do?

If not, when did your thinking change?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6WuTSTyS8
5 Years Ago: When the Press Helped Colin Powell Sell the War

re: 5 Years Ago Today, Colin Powell Addressed the UN

Posted: 2/5/08 at 9:01pm

it was so crazy...
i was watching Powell live on cspan & simultaeneously watching his points being debunked one by one in realtime on atrios.

i thought, "surely if a bunch of nobodies like us can see thru this, people with actual power can, too!"

alas.

re: 5 Years Ago Today, Colin Powell Addressed the UN

Posted: 2/5/08 at 9:08pm

Atrios was one of the first bloggers to see through the lies.

I was in Los Angeles for business, watching on a large TV and thinking it was all some horrible Hollywood political movie.

re: 5 Years Ago Today, Colin Powell Addressed the UN

Posted: 2/6/08 at 3:20pm

I remember very clearly the resulting antiwar demonstration in Times Square, and the Fox coverage (their heyday, 2001 -- 2004) suggesting that anyone who marched was, in addition to not being a patriot, personally destroying New York's economy. "First 9/11, and now THIS. What are the poor tourists to think?" What would they think of the 4,000 dead American soldiers and 100,000+ dead Iraqi's? What would they think about the civilians killed by Americans on Saturday and again yesterday? I guess if "the surge is working," it's just a question of "whoops."

"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling

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