Colin The Chameleon continues to evade

From Blair Watch

We learned yesterday that Colin Powell was present at the meeting where bush and Blair discussed bombing al-Jazeera. We also learned that he, along with Blair had to talk Bush out of the idea.

"Ryan Parry, asked him a question that contained the date and subject of the meeting, and was successively told

‘I can’t remember every meeting,’ …
‘I don’t know, you’ll have to forgive me,’ …
‘I don’t recall this,’ …
‘I don’t remember the Al Jazeera thing, frankly,’ "

Colin cannot seriously be expecting us to believe that he does not remember a conversation between his boss, George Dubya and Tony Blair about bombing the al-Jazeera station in Qatar, and having to talk his boss out of it?

Well, Colin has had a chance to check his diary, so I guess it depends how much pressure they are under to keep asking…

Powell is a master at pretending to be all things to all people while avoiding responsibility and culpability. And when the fights happen, well then he’s Mr. Invisible. Poof, the chameleon vanishes, and changes his colors once again. I do not find these traits even slightly praiseworthy. Who is he? What does he stand for (if anything)? Who knows? At least with Bush, you know what you’re dealing with, but Powell deliberately presents a blank slate to the world.

Powell, of course, is lying when he says he can’t remember the President babbled about wanting to blow up a media hq in a friendly country. What we need is a massive media campaign to pressure him to get honest.

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From United for Justice and Peace

Does the thought of watching President Bush give the State of the Union address (scheduled for January 31) leave you feeling a bit depressed?  We have the solution:  throw a house party to support UFPJ and your local peace and justice group. And have fun!

Hundreds die each month in Iraq. Homes are blown up, people maimed, families shattered. Bush makes noises about invading Iran and Syria. Civil liberties are being being shredded.  

So, in response, United for Peace wants us all to… have a party? This is the same group that threw a hissy fit last month, refusing to work with the ANSWER Coalition on joint nationwide antiwar demonstrations. This must be that "new direction" they’ve been talking about. Have a fund-raising party and send us the money. Give them a year and they’ll be a liberal Democratic PAC like Moveon.org (What, you didn’t know MoveOn was a PAC?) maybe splashing the water a bit, but certainly not ever rocking the boat.

Well, this ANSWER organizer, speaking completely on his own, can assure you that while ANSWER members do like to party, we continue to organize militant antiwar demonstrations. We’re already in full mobilization mode for the March 18-20 Global Days of Action.

Parties are fun. But they don’t end wars. Mass numbers of people in the streets do. That’s what changes public opinion. That what forces lawmakers to act. Or gets them thrown out of office.

I actually thought UFJP had more fire in the belly than this. Guess not. We look forward to their Campfire Cookouts, with participants singing ‘Cumbaya’ as assault helicopters blow up more homes in Baghdad.

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Colin the Chameleon Powell was present when Dubya told Tony Blair he wanted to blow up al-Jazeera headquarters in Iraq.

This from John Latham, who has read the memo. Thus, Colin Powell can confirm Bush said it.

Blair Watch opines

As far as I am aware, nobody has directed any questions at Colin about what the Whitehouse describe as a joke, and Blair describes as a conspiracy theory…
Over to the US bloggers on that one.

From the Guardian

"He mentioned that the document was a transcript of a meeting in Washington DC between Bush and Blair. There had been a proposal to take military action against al-Jazeera at their headquarters in Qatar. This was defused by Colin Powell, US secretary of state, and Tony Blair."

Colin Powell is invisible when he wants to be, liberal other times, then conservative. A true chameleon. While it’s admirable he helped defuse Bush, it’s not so admirable that he now says, darn it, he can’t remember a thing about the meeting. But then, that’s what chameleons do. Change their colors in the blink of an eye.

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One of Washington’s top lobbying operations will shut down at the end of the month because of its ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former House majority leader Tom DeLay.

Not to worry, they’ll all be busy, what with all the federal investigations aimed at them.

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