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In reply to the discussion: Fuck! Enough Already! Colin Powell is why America is where it is! [View all]Haggard Celine
(17,625 posts)56. I remember.
Pretty much everybody with an internet connection back then was aware that the "intelligence" was bullshit and it was a trumped-up war. If little old me knew it and most of the rest of the internet knew it, why didn't Powell and most of Congress know? And then, when the truth could no longer be denied, we heard that evil asshole Rumsfeld say that "absence of evidence isn't evidence of abscence."
Thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, of Iraqis died for profit, and the guilty parties have never even come close to being punished. Well, maybe now Rumsfeld and Powell are burning in Hell. That might be a little bit of justice.
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Fuck! Enough Already! Colin Powell is why America is where it is! [View all]
berni_mccoy
Oct 2021
OP
Right. His deliberate and knowing lies made me forever lose all respect for him.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Oct 2021
#1
Powell had a reputation of being honest, the entire World believed him. He fooled us all.
Escurumbele
Oct 2021
#71
"Biden mourns loss of Colin Powell: 'He will be remembered as one of our great Americans'"
brooklynite
Oct 2021
#8
Without the Intel community selling him a bill of goods, Powell may not have gone down that road.
joetheman
Oct 2021
#27
Just think. Old Colin will know have a chance to tell Jesus about N. Korea's yellow cake. Lol.
johnthewoodworker
Oct 2021
#23
Really? I would venture to say that Ralph Nader, and others, etc. had probably more of an effect
JohnSJ
Oct 2021
#24
With all these negative comments about Powell we should remember one fact.......
KS Toronado
Oct 2021
#33
It did not make any difference if Powell was for or against the war or what he said.
marie999
Oct 2021
#68
Thank you, I have been writing about the same exact thing here in DU all day.
Escurumbele
Oct 2021
#70
Nobody is forcing you to listen to the praise Biden, Obama, the Clintons are heaping on Powell
Kaleva
Oct 2021
#74
IDGAF who praises Powell. If you want to live in fantasy land that's your choice
berni_mccoy
Oct 2021
#75
People now say "Thank god Gen. Milley stopped Trump, imagine if he hadn't"
traitorsgalore
Oct 2021
#90