Colin Powell

[redgreenandblue]

I recently heard of the passing of Colin Powell.

I have to say this: I hated the Bush administration, and the entire neocon crowd, with a passion, and do to this day. I believe they made the world a much worse place, and laid the groundwork for many of the problems of the last two decades. In a just world they would have been locked away for war crimes.

And yet, for some reason, I have a soft spot for Colin Powell. He seemed to have some redeeming qualities. I'm kinda sad that he is gone.

[JohnSJ]

1. Same here

[markie]

2. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson has

given some excellent interviews about his time with and feelings about Powell... they are worth listening to...

the one with Terry Gross is good however I can't find the link

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/10/22/web-extra-what-the-public-doesnt-know-about-colin-powell

[ret5hd]

3. Made his bones covering up Mai Lai.

Then did it again for the gulf war.

[hunter]

4. Yep.

Not a man of integrity.

[electric_blue68]

6. Oh, covering up Mai Lai?! Woah! ...

I was a younger teen then. Knew about the massacre, not the cover up.

[Progressive Jones]

5. Powell was a fucking fraud. Period. nt

[ShazamIam]

7. I am one who believes he was becuse of his skin color deliberately used by the W Bush/D Cheney game

They deliberately used a black man with an impeccable reputation to lie for them and take the fall for them.

The Republicans have done this many times to black Republicans they recruit. Carson is another but they elevated him because he was pron he, Carson bout the big lie about opportunity and he was willing to abuse his religious beliefs for political purposes.

You gotta wonder was Herman Cain, encouraged, to go to the Oklahoma Orangeman rally because he had become unhappy with the Republicans?