Colin Powell: Bill Clinton Misrepresented My Role In 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

CBS News:

Colin Powell has released a statement saying that former President Bill Clinton's suggestion that Powell misrepresented how the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy would be put into effect is "incorrect."

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Comments

[Clevelandinwi]

08:57 PM on 10/31/2010

My apologies, General Powell, since I have the greatest admiration for you that is possible and my admiration for President Clinton is muted slightly by his 'escapades' in the White House, but I have to say , General, you are wrong on this one. Understandably wrong, but wrong nevertheless.

[Mattie]

06:06 AM on 09/24/2010

That's ok Colin, you misrepresented the case for war before the UN. We've been at war for a decade thanks to that.

[Ret Chief]

04:45 AM on 09/24/2010

How does been thrown under the bus feel like, General? Ouchhhhh...

[sushi27]

03:58 AM on 09/24/2010

Time for an executive order from President Obama!

[Tom Sutpen]

04:08 AM on 09/24/2010

Shhhhhh . . .

You're not supposed to mention that abolishing DADT can be done with the stroke of a pen; you have to maintain the pretense that only a long, drawn-out process involving Congress and the approval of the JCS can accomplish that goal.

Jeez. With talk like that, one would think you actually want it abolished; and not just used as a political football for the campaign season.

[sushi27]

04:22 AM on 09/24/2010

It's not a permanent solution, nevertheless, at this point, I wish he would just stop the bleeding.

[sidplicity]

03:42 AM on 09/24/2010

I wonder if Colin Powell is still walking around with his small vial of yellow powder in his pocket.

[Mystery Solver]

03:37 AM on 09/24/2010

Colin Cancer Powell told a bold face lie at the United Nations. Why are we to believe him now?

[Tom Sutpen]

03:45 AM on 09/24/2010

Because Colin Powell (who I have zero respect for) was essentially ordered to lie by the administration he served; Bill Clinton (whom I have even less respect for) lies the way most people breathe.

[Mattie]

06:07 AM on 09/24/2010

A man with integrity wouldn't have lied, ordered to or not. Bill Clinton is a great man, and he was a great President.

[noladebby]

03:30 AM on 09/24/2010

Team Clinton! He misrepresented your role? Yeah right....kind of like you misrepresented YOUR role when you LIED for Bush about WMD?

[Tom Sutpen]

03:42 AM on 09/24/2010

Last I checked, those were two different events.

Whether he misrepresented the possible effect of DADT or not is irrelevant. Bill Clinton surely was made aware at some point in the following seven years how the policy was being implemented; yet he lifted not one finger to correct it or, better still, to abolish it. Why? Because he was in favor of it then, just as he's in favor of it now.

[jws2346]

03:20 AM on 09/24/2010

Come on General Powell, keep your mouth buttoned and don't pull a McCain. This is a Becky boi subject and if you keep jabbering about it you may loose what credibility you have left

[jsgaetano]

02:32 AM on 09/24/2010

Did Colon Power end up finding those mobile weapons labs he told the UN about?

If not, I wonder why he thinks he has any credibility?

[noladebby]

03:30 AM on 09/24/2010

Absolutely agree.

[sheaintsayin]

01:44 AM on 09/24/2010

What about your misrepresentations to Americans, and leaders of other nations, in the international gathering place of leaders, on February 5, 2003, that terrible, horrible, no good very bad day??? How 'bout that, Powell; was that blot on your record a misrepresenting, 'cause it sure seemed like lying to me, and I still remember that I could not see clearly through the tears as I drove to work, listening to you tell the world those words...

[Fight4Freedom2008]

01:34 AM on 09/24/2010

I believe Clinton admitted the error of his ways at the last Net-roots Nation gathering?

[Fight4Freedom2008]

01:30 AM on 09/24/2010

No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family (by Christopher Hitchens)
http://www.amazon.com/No-One-Left-Lie-Values/dp/1859842844/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285306023&sr=8-1

[Tom Sutpen]

03:33 AM on 09/24/2010

Extraordinary book; easily the best ever written on its subject.

[planetjeffy]

01:16 AM on 09/24/2010

I saw Powell apologizing for Newt's hate speech.
For a decorated military vet, this guy has no backbone.
like a slug

[Hardyman1966]

01:14 AM on 09/24/2010

I'm going to have to go with Powell on this one, the ONLY Republican I ever would have voted for, if only he ran for President.  I still like Bill, it sounded like a good idea at the time, but clearly, it left a lot open to interpretation by terrified heteros and IT HAS GOT TO GO.

If all it takes to make you go to pieces is ONE gay guy, you have NO business defending MY country.

[noladebby]

03:31 AM on 09/24/2010

really? You're gonna side with Powell. Did you believe his power point presentation about WMD too?

[Hardyman1966]

12:06 PM on 09/24/2010

Would that be the same one that everyone else bought as well on both sides of the aisle?

[clivechristy]

01:06 AM on 09/24/2010

Oh well thanks for getting back to us in a timely and forthright manner on that Colin. We appreciate it.