Imagine if he had resigned in protest at the decision to push for the invasion of Iraq. He would now be hailed as a hero around the world.
Instead, he didn’t. What a waste of an exceptional career.
Colin Powell has died
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#13I won't understand respect for someone who was reponsible for the deaths of 100s of thousands of people because he lied.
I’m no fan of Colin Powell but IMO the responsibility for those deaths does not fall on him specifically. The US was going to war in Iraq with or without the UN’s backing, everything Powell did was window dressing. False, deceitful and criminal window dressing, but still.
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#14Ironic that his predecessor (Kissinger) is still alive. I say it's "ironic" because Kissinger opened US relations with China, which ultimately set off a series of events leading to Powell's death.
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#15A lot of people die.
A good number of them partially because of his actions.
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#16Imagine if he had resigned in protest at the decision to push for the invasion of Iraq. He would now be hailed as a hero around the world. Instead, he didn’t. What a waste of an exceptional career.
No one who was against the Iraq War from the onset is doing particularly well. When was the last time you heard anything from Phil Donahue?
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#17Around half a million innocent Afghani and Iraqi civilians died in Afghanistan and Iraq during those wars.
I dont understand why the American news media neglected to report on that.
Another interesting observation: Halliburton ran the supply chain for both the Vietnam war and the Gulf wars.
Not alot of sympathy from me for that guy.
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#18I won't understand respect for someone who was reponsible for the deaths of 100s of thousands of people because he lied.
If he didn't deliver that speech, they would have found someone else to do it (and he would have been fired). The responsibility lies with Bush and Cheney, not with the messenger.
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#19Hopefully cnn staff will join him. They helped push a lie that killed 981,000 innocent civilians which half of were children. Rott in Hell. Now they turned it on us.
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#20Imagine if he had resigned in protest at the decision to push for the invasion of Iraq. He would now be hailed as a hero around the world. Instead, he didn’t. What a waste of an exceptional career.
No one who was against the Iraq War from the onset is doing particularly well. When was the last time you heard anything from Phil Donahue?
Well, I hadn't heard much about Phil Donahue for some years before that.