Louis Burgdorf | Morning Joe
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on the set of Morning Joe
This morning Colin Powell joined us to discuss his new book "It Worked for Me," which focuses, in part, on his role in the run up to the Iraq war.
In the book and in our interview Powell reflects on his now infamous speech to the U.N. Security Council on Iraq, calling it in the book something that "...will earn a prominent paragraph in my obituary."
Joe Scarborough also asked the former Secretary of State his thoughts about Mitt Romney's foreign policy advisors and if he thinks Romney is "...top-heavy when it comes to the neoconservatives around him."
"I've noticed that," Powell said.
Powell then said he feels many of Romney's advisors are "quite far to the right."
"And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought. For example, when Gov. Romney not too long ago said the Russian federation is our number one geostrategic threat. C’mon, Mitt…think! That isn’t the case. And I don’t know whether Mitt really feels that or…It’s been catching a lot of heck from regular GOP foreign affairs community. We were kind of taken aback by it. Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America. All of the problems we talk about – Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, you name them all – they come to about 700 or 800 million people in a world of 7 billion. What are the rest of them doing? They’re increasing their economies; they’re building wealth; they’re educating their kids; they’re building their infrastructure. That’s what we need to be doing."
In March, Romney also faced criticism for an opinion column on Iran he wrote in the Washington Post.
Watch the interview below:
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This really sums it up! Think about it -- This guy is running for President!! For him to say Russia is our number one foe is simply mind boggling. If this does not show how dangerous it would be to have him as President I dont know what more you need. He is a one trick poney...he was able to use his position in life to make some great connections and make huge sums of money for his investors with no regard for the human cost of making that money. Newt Gingrich said it best when describing how Romney made is money when he said "just becasue you have the right to do something that does not mean it is the right thing to do"
There appears to be no doubt Romney is not writing his own speeches. Whoever does romney's scripts puts words on paper and Romney reads them off. Come on, for the past half year at least he's gone back and forth on every issue, every single one, except when talking off the cuff, then he puts his foot in his mouth. And you know why? Romney doesn't care what he says and what he's doing because every word and action comes from his string masters. Whatever they tell him to say and do is okay with him. He just wants to sit in the WHouse and be the good boy they're telling him to be. This Romney is NOT a leader, but a 'do what the elders say to do.' Ask anyone who worked closely with him - he never made a real decision, not at Bain, not at the Olympics. He's a prankster cheerleader, and we already had one like him that tanked the U.S.
I heard Joe ask the head of Planned Parenthood if she understood why people wouldn't want their tax dollars to go to a place they felt was immoral. Hey Joe...Are drones and bombs moral? What if I dont want my tax dollars going to bomb and kill because it is immoral? You cant go line item in the budget to decide what you do and don't want your tax dollars to go for. Besides the dolts that think abortion is immoral but war is the "answer" or support the death penalty and just intellectually bankrupt hypocrites/ right wing zombies.