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Lemme find out the republicans have a black water cooler at the office.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/colin-powell-emails-clinton-trump-rumsfeld-228158
Powell and Rice also repeatedly and vividly criticized Rumsfeld, the chief steward of the Iraq War.
"One day when we both have had too many drinks we can discuss why tolerated him and why Dick , a successful SecDef, was so committed to Don,” Powell wrote on Dec. 16. “I must say I gagged as praised him as the ‘best’ at the statuary hall unveiling.”
Powell and Rice’s other targets included former Vice President Dick Cheney and Iraq War architect Paul Wolfowitz.
“Hee, hee, he won't,” Powell wrote to Rice on Nov. 26, after she said Cheney should “concentrate on quality time with his grandkids and let it go.” Powell had flagged a Fox News reporter’s interview with Cheney that delved into Iraq and other Bush-era controversies.
Rice told Powell that Cheney should “go away already!”
Powell called Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense who spearheaded the Iraq invasion, “a f--king liar” after reading an interview in which Wolfowitz blamed Powell’s State Department for what many experts allege were the United States’ two largest post-invasion blunders: the disbanding of the Iraqi army and the decision to expel members of Saddam Hussein’s Baathist Party from the civilian government.
“Bremer worked for him,” Powell wrote to Lawrence Wilkerson, his former chief of staff, on Aug. 28, after Wilkerson flagged the interview for him. He was referring to Paul Bremer, who oversaw the post-invasion transitional government in Iraq. “It wasn't State, it was the President and the guy who reported to Paul.”
“This is the narrative in the Feith and Rummy books,” Powell said, referring to memoirs by Rumsfeld and Bush-era Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith. “No one has really fallen for it.”
The next day, in an email to Rice, Powell wrote that he would “never forget the lunch in your office when Don abdicated the position.” It’s not clear to what he was referring, but Powell added that Rumsfeld “should have been fired that afternoone .”
Rumsfeld “got mad when I tried to pull his you know what out of the fire by sending Blackwill out there,” Rice wrote, recalling the meeting. “And when you and I started to talk to directly.”
“Yep,” Powell responded, “remember his tantrum vividly.”
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