Colin Powell erased “Tear Down this Wall”

Many were shocked when Colin Powell coddled with Obambi last year and gleefully got an hour on Meet the Press to talk about mean Republicans.

I wasn’t.

Today, the anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s epochal speech at the Berlin Wall, where the Gipper proclaimed “Mr. Gorbechev, tear down this wall.”

But the State Department had cut the now-famous line from Reagan’s speech. And there was Colin Powell, arguing with Reagan’s speechwriter Peter Robinson about why that line couldn’t stay in the speech.

“I found Colin Powell, then deputy national security adviser, waiting for me. I was a 30-year-old who had never held a full-time job outside speechwriting. Powell was a decorated general. After listening to Powell recite all the arguments against the speech in his accustomed forceful manner, however, I heard myself reciting all the arguments in favor of the speech in an equally forceful manner. I could scarcely believe my own tone of voice.”

Colin Powell? Mr. Republican who claims “his party left him?” Colin Powell didn’t want to make any Communists mad and hoped Reagan would kiss their Ruskie behinds.

Guess who Reagan didn’t listen to.

Even the morning of the speech, Reagan was being pushed into deleting the line. “Too provocative” they said, and this was a funny one – “It would raise false hopes.”

Yes, Colin. Your way and the Berlin Wall would still be standing, and where would the world be.

Reagan told his team “Let’s keep it in…it’s the right thing to do.” And the walls came tumbling down.

Thank God for Ronald Reagan.

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