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Colin Powell dead

Postby Gig em Aggies » Mon Oct 18, 2021 6:09 am

https://news.yahoo.com/former-secretary ... 42717.html

The former Secretary of state has died from complications to Covid 19 he also helped Gen schwarzkopf win in the Gulf War to free Kuwait from Sadam Hussain.
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Postby Relden » Mon Oct 18, 2021 6:11 am

I thought the covid and American politics threads would've provided adequate scope for this.
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Postby Kargintinia » Mon Oct 18, 2021 6:12 am

Condolences to his family. May he Rest In Peace.
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Postby The New California Republic » Mon Oct 18, 2021 7:21 am

Disagreed with him on many things, but RIP.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:05 am

Another great new yorker, who got screwed by his masters.

If he had run, I would have voted for him. RIP. Mr. Secretary.
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Postby FarmerGroot » Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:22 am

One of the few republicans and Bush policy statesman that I mostly respected. God Speed. Rip
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Postby The Black Forrest » Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:39 am

Ethel mermania wrote:Another great new yorker, who got screwed by his masters.

If he had run, I would have voted for him. RIP. Mr. Secretary.


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Postby Heloin » Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:45 am

Now he’ll never be able to find those WMDs :(
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Postby Ifreann » Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:52 am

Heloin wrote:Now he’ll never be able to find those WMDs :(

He can ask Saddam about them in person.
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Postby The New California Republic » Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:53 am

Heloin wrote:Now he’ll never be able to find those WMDs :(

If folk believe in an afterlife, he might be able to ask Saddam himself.

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Postby Senkaku » Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:18 am

Is “statesman” just what we call war criminals who rise past middle management now
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Postby Aggicificicerous » Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:22 am

The only thing I can remember of him is waving a vial of fake anthrax in the UN. A legacy of lies and war crimes.
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Postby Luziyca » Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:11 am

Senkaku wrote:Is “statesman” just what we call war criminals who rise past middle management now

Basically, so long as they remain allied to "us," whoever they may be. Saddam was a statesman, after all... until he wasn't.

Anyway, condolences to the friends and family of Mr. Powell.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:17 am

Aggicificicerous wrote:The only thing I can remember of him is waving a vial of fake anthrax in the UN. A legacy of lies and war crimes.


Yellow cake. And powell was mislead
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Postby Heloin » Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:22 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Aggicificicerous wrote:The only thing I can remember of him is waving a vial of fake anthrax in the UN. A legacy of lies and war crimes.


Yellow cake. And powell was mislead

Mislead is a funny euphemism for lied.
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Ethel mermania wrote:
Aggicificicerous wrote:The only thing I can remember of him is waving a vial of fake anthrax in the UN. A legacy of lies and war crimes.


Yellow cake. And powell was mislead


Mislead? He was secretary of state. Did he have his fingers in his ears everyday? Or was he a figurehead who wasn't allowed into meetings?
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:47 am

Heloin wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
Yellow cake. And powell was mislead

Mislead is a funny euphemism for lied.


He was told the documents were real. They came from the CIA, not state dept.
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Postby Senkaku » Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:56 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Heloin wrote:Mislead is a funny euphemism for lied.


He was told the documents were real. They came from the CIA, not state dept.

And I was told there’s such a thing as a tooth fairy, but I didn’t try to tell the UN that
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Postby Heloin » Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:59 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Heloin wrote:Mislead is a funny euphemism for lied.


He was told the documents were real. They came from the CIA, not state dept.

If you receive information from the CIA indicating good reason to invade a country then you likely know it’s pure BS. If you’re Secretary of Sate then you definitely know it’s BS.
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Postby Vlad Tepes Stan Account » Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:31 am

RIP to one of the few remaining military minds that acknowledged that boots and artillery are indispensable in warfare. The Powell Doctrine over the Rumsfeld Doctrine any day.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:35 am

Heloin wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
He was told the documents were real. They came from the CIA, not state dept.

If you receive information from the CIA indicating good reason to invade a country then you likely know it’s pure BS. If you’re Secretary of Sate then you definitely know it’s BS.

Thats not the way his mind worked. He came up as a honest and smart military man, not as a politician. He got eaten alive by the process.
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Postby Heloin » Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:41 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Heloin wrote:If you receive information from the CIA indicating good reason to invade a country then you likely know it’s pure BS. If you’re Secretary of Sate then you definitely know it’s BS.

Thats not the way his mind worked. He came up as a honest and smart military man, not as a politician. He got eaten alive by the process.

Or he was just a liar who like the rest of Bush’s cabinet should have spent the remainder of their days in a cell.
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Postby Vlad Tepes Stan Account » Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:44 am

Heloin wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Thats not the way his mind worked. He came up as a honest and smart military man, not as a politician. He got eaten alive by the process.

Or he was just a liar who like the rest of Bush’s cabinet should have spent the remainder of their days in a cell.

Why?
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Postby Heloin » Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:50 am

Vlad Tepes Stan Account wrote:
Heloin wrote:Or he was just a liar who like the rest of Bush’s cabinet should have spent the remainder of their days in a cell.

Why?

Because they’re all war criminals.
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Postby Vlad Tepes Stan Account » Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:56 am

Heloin wrote:
Vlad Tepes Stan Account wrote:Why?

Because they’re all war criminals.

You mean war of aggression? Meh.
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