The Big Crunch
06 Oct 2006, 03:25 PM
I just finished reading the main story from last Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine on Colin Powell’s infamous U.N. speech and his final days as Secretary of State. Even though he doesn't figure in the story very much, it's a reminder that George Bush really is an idiot, and that Condi Rice is just troubling. How someone as unqualified for any major executive position as Dubya could get elected twice is just mind-boggling. The degree to which rationality and reality were hostily discouraged (and likely still are) in favor of selling the ideology and "staying on point" is just scary. It's kind've like reading the propoganda used to try and keep support up for Vietnam after it had clearly gone to hell, and you ask yourself, "certainly these guys didn't believe the crap they were telling the American people? Surely they knew they were lying, right?" But it seems like they really had drank the kool-aid themselves. Same story today. Such a tragedy.
The article is well worth reading; a candid and detailed look at how the speech was prepared with extensive interviews from Powell and others who were involved in drafting the speech and presenting the case on February 5, 2003. It also focuses in detail on Powell's dismissal from his position and the actual procedure he followed as he left office.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092700106.html
The article is well worth reading; a candid and detailed look at how the speech was prepared with extensive interviews from Powell and others who were involved in drafting the speech and presenting the case on February 5, 2003. It also focuses in detail on Powell's dismissal from his position and the actual procedure he followed as he left office.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092700106.html