The devils want to wear my red shoes
I wonder how Colin Powell marked the Monday holiday.Maybe he spent it at the Colin Powell Center For Policy Studies, whose focus includes (I shit you not):... the histories and best practice of...
View ArticleDirty deeds done expensively
Part of the pre-Iraq War marketing was how cheap and easy it would be.Rep. Jan Schakowski (D-IL) has a great — if hideously formatted — roundup of GOP claims of a zipless war. (h/t)Just as the media...
View ArticleSame time, next year
That's a wrap for this year's "Day of Shame" blogging, commemorating the fourth anniversary of Colin Powell's February 5, 2003 UN presentation — and the media's outrageous approval for it.To simplify...
View ArticleThe Day of Shame and You
Please read this call to action on Correntewire.com about how you can help the world remember and maybe understand the Day of Shame, when Colin Powell and the mainstream media lied us into war.Update...
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Here is the first helping of contributions to the Day of Shame blogswarm, 2008...In reply to this year's call-to-action, whaleshaman muses about that vial of non-anthrax.Batocchio's superb analysis,...
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If you look around YouTube, you'll find that the MSM's Powell/U.N. postmortems are all about rehabilitating the general's reputation.So, it's left to the blogosphere, and great work like Jonathan...
View ArticleLive and let die
The internets are chock full of handy lists.An oft-posted one is "Colin Powell's Rules to Live By," which is generally set up with a gushy intro, like this one:I was watching my favorite show on The...
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Rising Hegemon marks the day.And so does Consortium News, with an excerpt about Powell at the U.N., from Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush.(h/t Rena in comments)
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On February 7, 2003, Slacktavist described Powell's presentation thusly:"POWELL'S EVIDENCE LOOKING SHAKY. No smoking gun, lots of smoke and mirrors."If there's one thing I hate, it's 20/20 hindsight....
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Driftglass marks the Day of Shame with pictures, poetry, and heartfelt prose:The number of dead Iraqis, who might as well be so many Pac Man dots, so little do they matter to us as real, live human...
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Elayne Riggs holds out hope that Barack Obama is the anti-Powell.QSR (Quick Service Restaurant News):2008-02-04 — The Women's Foodservice Forum (WFF) today announced this year's lineup of keynote...
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Sorry, juggling Super Tuesday aftershocks and a little real life. There are more links coming today and, I hope, through the rest of the week. In the meantime, if you haven't caught up with all the...
View ArticleDay of Shame Links #7
A Poetic Justice suggests giving peace a chance.For Alan Perlman, AKA "The Jewish Atheist," the Day of Shame doesn't quite bring on a peaceful, easy feeling. He sees Powell as "a magnificent example of...
View ArticleDay of Shame Links #8
At Maine Owl, The Owl well remembers the day Powell threw us a Curveball and digs into the archives for a chilling timeline of the days of shame that followed the boffo U.N. anthrax-and-pony show....
View ArticleWe'll meet again
Thank you for helping commemorate the fifth anniversary of the biggest sucker deal in Manhattan since Peter Minuit bought the place.At least the Native Americans got trinkets. All we got from Colin...
View ArticleDay of Shame, Sixth Anniversary
We have just posted a call for entries to commemorate the sixth anniversary of Colin Powell's Iraq War sell job at the UN... and the media's gleeful buying of same.
View ArticleColin creedence revival
This is the first of my two posts that commemorate tomorrow's Day of Shame. Please share your own recollections and analyses of — what should be — an unforgettably sorry day in American history!* *...
View ArticleGwen Ifill and the MSM: still shameless after all these years
This is the second of my two posts that commemorate the Day of Shame, 2009 — the sixth anniversary of Colin Powell's UN presentation and the media's chorus of approval for same.Please share your own...
View ArticleDay of Shame, 7 years after
Today is the seventh anniversary of the Day of Shame, the day that Colin Powell made a grotesquely unconvincing case to the United Nations for the invasion and occupation of Iraq... and the American...
View ArticleDay of Shame, 8th Anniversary
[Crossposted at correntewire.com and vastleft.com]Eight years ago today, Colin Powell delivered a set of the most transparent lies imaginable, and our pundit class swooned... and thereby condemned tens...
View ArticleDay of Shame, 9th Anniversary
[See also: commemoration in cartoon form. And welcome, Naked Capitalism readers! Welcome Sideshow readers!]President Obama began his 2012 State of the Union address speaking thusly about the war that...
View ArticleDay of Shame, 10th Anniversary
Ten years ago today, Colin Powell went to the United Nations and presented an emperor's-new-clothes argument for raining death, dismemberment, and displacement onto the people of Iraq.To call the case...
View ArticleRecommended reading
Day of Shame related posts from the past year:Jonathan Schwarz: "Colin Powell Gets Mad at Me"David Swanson: "Colin Powell's Tangled Web"
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Day of Shame, 11 years after
Goshka Macuga's "Colin Powell" statue. (via)It has now been 11 years since Colin Powell pitched preemptive total war against Iraq based on obvious fictions... and since the American media absolutely...
View ArticleDay of Shame, 12th Anniversary
Twelve years after Colin Powell sold the US media and public alike on America's invasion of Iraq, the film hit of the season makes a hero of a mass killer in that war.American Sniper has grossed over a...
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