Political Gridlock Newsletter

[Kenneth Riviere]

Just a correction to Bishop Spong's clearly stated summation of some of the bad decisions made by our political leaders which led our country to the mess we find ourselves in.

 

It was Colin Powell who was Secretary of State in the build up/selling of the war on Iraq under W. He made an impassioned speech at the United Nations about the weapons-making efforts of Iraq and thereby helped pass the resolution which W took as authorization for the invasion. This was one of the events which caused me to lose respect for Powell as perhaps the only member of the Bush administration with any integrity.

 

Condoleezza Rice did not become Secretary of State until after the invasion of Iraq had begun.

 

Peace,

Kenneth

[JenellYB]

Re Colin Powell's mentioned speech....he has also acknowledged since that to be personally one of the most humiliating and shameful mistakes of his career...he was passionate in that speech because he believed the information upon which it was based, and that his sources were trustworthy...he later felt terribly betrayed, and I feel that was the case as well.

Jenell

[soma]

It does take integrity to admit humiliating mistakes to dig deep to get to that point.

[JenellYB]

I often wonder that so many people I've heard say they ask God to grant them humility, do not seem to realize that the path to humility is humiliation.

[rivanna]

Glad that Kenneth brought this up – I used to subscribe to Spong’s newsletters, and it’s good to know that he is speaking out in support of Obama and the truth about the economic woes he inherited from previous adminstrations.