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@shavixmir saidPowell was a good man and a good soldier, only faulted for
See, even a pandemic has a positive side.
Go Covid!
being too loyal to G.W. & company's Iraq invasion, which
he later apologized for. He probably could have
become president. Despite his lifelong friendship
with John McCain, he abandoned the Republican Party
and endorsed Barack Obama for president. Many historians
credit his endorsement for Obama's victory.
@mott-the-hoople saidSo you get to define his life failing to discern that a position taken by every other major statesman in position to know also held was mistaken?
so if enough people go along it becomes ok? it was his job to know
I don't think you'd want to be judged by that standard.
@shavixmir saidIt's not a lie if you believe it.
He is the one who sold the blatant lie to the UN.
And, yes, I hold Bush and Blair equally reaponsible.
@sh76 saidThou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. Ex 23:2.
The revisionist history on this issue is truly amazing.
That everyone conveniently forgets that pretty much every major politician (at least in the US) took the position that Iraq had or was developing WMDs.
""In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to ...[text shortened]...
Blaming Powell for echoing what pretty much every powerful American politician believed is absurd.
There were others who knew better. Hans Blix, for example, but he was actively silenced.
There were others in the intelligence community who knew their assessment was being deliberately misinterpreted by politicians.
@sh76 saidHe blamed Iraq for the anthrax mailings only for us to find out later the anthrax came from a US lab. Then Mueller went on a witch hunt after an innocent man, Seven Hatfill. Then Ivins.
RIP
A great man and American hero.
Colin was either an evil piece of crap, or a patsy. Take your pick.
He was fully vaccinated and died from covid anyway, but the gene vaccine keeps people out of the hospital.
No matter what the statistics say if you see people are dying from covid who were fully vaccinated you might want to question how they count those statistics. He is not the only one. Brent Yonts died from covid after being fully vaccinated.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-kentucky-state-rep-dies-from-covid-19-he-was-fully-vaccinated-his-loved-ones-say/ar-AANxGLu
Broadway Actor Alvin Ing Dies of Breakthrough COVID-19 Complications
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/broadway-actor-alvin-ing-dies-of-breakthrough-covid-19-complications-at-age-89/ar-AAMUpud
Marc Pilcher dies of COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated.
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/bridgerton-hair-makeup-artist-marc-pilcher-dies-of-covid-19
4,493 Fully Vaccinated Americans Have Died Of COVID-19: CDC
https://www.ibtimes.com/4493-fully-vaccinated-americans-have-died-covid-19-cdc-3306466
@sh76 saidNot Ron Paul.
The revisionist history on this issue is truly amazing.
That everyone conveniently forgets that pretty much every major politician (at least in the US) took the position that Iraq had or was developing WMDs.
""In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to ...[text shortened]...
Blaming Powell for echoing what pretty much every powerful American politician believed is absurd.
Former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter spoke out against the propaganda and the corporate news media largely ignored him after that.
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/10/18/scott-ritter-powell-iraq-regime-change-not-disarmament-the-fundamental-lie/
Just because you never heard the people that were telling the truth doesn't mean they were not trying to be heard.
@shavixmir saidYou keep saying that but a link would be handy, somebody was definitely lying but was it Powel?
Did he fk!
He knew he was lying. His intelligence services and the UN were telling him so.