Colin Powell and Eavesdropping

Colin Powell is around! He just made a comment in support of the wiretapping by the Bush administration. But as always he is very confused.

On the one hand he said: "Absolutely nothing wrong with the president authorizing these kinds of actions to protect the nation".

On the other hand he added, "My own judgment is that it didn't seem to me, anyway, that it would have been that hard to go get the warrants. And even in the case of an emergency, you go and do it."

In other words he has no idea what he is talking about. As always.

I hate to say, but I have lost completely respect for Powell. He is a loser. He should have resigned in protest when the Iraq war started. But he did not. Instead, he presented with passion the false evidence on WMDs in the United Nations. Only he knows what he knew then. If he knew the intelligence was fake, he should be ashamed of himself. If he did not, as he claims, he was completely incompetent. The fact remains that at least 40,000 civilians and 2,400 US soldiers are dead today. Powell shares full responsibility with Cheney and the rest of the Bush administration about the whole Iraq disaster, no matter what he says.