SaysWho? Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 Just broke. COVID. Colin Powell, military leader and first Black US secretary of state, dies after complications from Covid-19 WWW.CNN.COM Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 Whoa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 What a blurb. "Shaped American foreign policy" lmao more like "laundered the case for the Iraq war leading to hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths" Rest in piss 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 I'm going to assume this was a breakthrough case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 4 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: I'm going to assume this was a breakthrough case. It was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodporne Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 I cannot read his name without hearing it in Clayton Bigsby's voice 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 15 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: What a blurb. "Shaped American foreign policy" lmao more like "laundered the case for the Iraq war leading to hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths" Rest in piss I always figured he was backstabbed, putting his trust in people he's known for a long time only for the trust to be betrayed on WMDs. He seemed like one of the most hesitant ones in that Bush administration to go to war and was a figure way back in 2008 who was trying to stop the far-right lurch of his party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 Henry Kissinger is probably chuckling to himself, "I have outlived another one." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 11 minutes ago, SaysWho? said: I always figured he was backstabbed, putting his trust in people he's known for a long time only for the trust to be betrayed on WMDs. He seemed like one of the most hesitant ones in that Bush administration to go to war and was a figure way back in 2008 who was trying to stop the far-right lurch of his party. Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew About Iraq 15 Years Ago and What He Told the U.N. THEINTERCEPT.COM The evidence is irrefutable: Powell consciously deceived the world in his 2003 presentation making the case for war with Saddam Hussein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 He's the poster boy for the lie that is "I can do more good from the inside!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 28 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew About Iraq 15 Years Ago and What He Told the U.N. THEINTERCEPT.COM The evidence is irrefutable: Powell consciously deceived the world in his 2003 presentation making the case for war with Saddam Hussein. What a dopey article that fundamentally misunderstands how any of this works 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 I got a news alert for this and ignored it until now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 In addition to being 84 years old, he was also being treated for lung cancer, so his death from a breakthrough infection really isn't an outlier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 this is no hero, no man of peace, no statesman. Do not lionize him 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finaljedi Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 2 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Henry Kissinger is probably chuckling to himself, "I have outlived another one." Henry Kissinger isn't really a person but an avatar of evil brought into this world by unknowable powers. While he may not be considered alive, he will most certainly out-exist us all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioandsonic Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, finaljedi said: Henry Kissinger isn't really a person but an avatar of evil brought into this world by unknowable powers. While he may not be considered alive, he will most certainly out-exist us all. So just like Trump? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 1 minute ago, marioandsonic said: So just like Trump? Trump isn't even remotely within spitting distance of the level that Kissinger is on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ort Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 Why get the vaccine at all if you can still die? It doesn't even do anything? See? ~ Every ignorant dipshit anti-vax shitbrained fucklord. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyPiranha Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 5 hours ago, ort said: Why get the vaccine at all if you can still die? It doesn't even do anything? See? ~ Every ignorant dipshit anti-vax shitbrained fucklord. I have the perfect thread for you: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 Why was his name pronounced "colon"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 21 minutes ago, Brick said: Why was his name pronounced "colon"? It wasn't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 1 hour ago, SuperSpreader said: It wasn't Anytime I ever heard his name on a news broadcast, or even just TV like SNL or something, they said it like "Cole-in" instead of "call-in", like Colin Mochrie, or Colin Farrel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 48 minutes ago, Brick said: Anytime I ever heard his name on a news broadcast, or even just TV like SNL or something, they said it like "Cole-in" instead of "call-in", like Colin Mochrie, or Colin Farrel. Colon is pronounced: Cole-en Colin Powell's name is pronounced: Cole-In Those other two Colins are pronounced: Call-in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 2 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: Colon is pronounced: Cole-en Colin Powell's name is pronounced: Cole-In Those other two Colins are pronounced: Call-in Are you trolling me right now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 10 minutes ago, Brick said: Are you trolling me right now? I now you're Canadian so you don't speak English but those are the correct pronunciations. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 10 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: I now you're Canadian so you don't speak English but those are the correct pronunciations. Thank you. Someone had to say it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 This thread is now about Trump lmao 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 15 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: This thread is now about Trump lmao something something broken clock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodporne Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 11 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: I now you're Canadian so you don't speak English but those are the correct pronunciations. You can't blame him. Those hockey helmets these people wear 24/7 make it hard to hear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 Just now, Bloodporne said: You can't blame him. Those hockey helmets these people wear 24/7 make it hard to hear 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodporne Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 Just now, Jason said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted October 19, 2021 Author Share Posted October 19, 2021 That answer by Powell on the birther/Muslim racist garbage sounds ahead of its time even now. Full quote: "And I think it has made the McCain campaign look a little narrow. It's not what the American people are looking for. And I look at these kinds of approaches to the campaign and they trouble me. And the party has moved even further to the right, and Governor Palin has indicated a further rightward shift. I would have difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court, but that's what we'd be looking at in a McCain administration. I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, "Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim." Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, "He's a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists." This is not the way we should be doing it in America. I feel strongly about this particular point because of a picture I saw in a magazine. It was a photo essay about troops who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. And one picture at the tail end of this photo essay was of a mother in Arlington Cemetery, and she had her head on the headstone of her son's grave. And as the picture focused in, you could see the writing on the headstone. And it gave his awards--Purple Heart, Bronze Star--showed that he died in Iraq, gave his date of birth, date of death. He was 20 years old. And then, at the very top of the headstone, it didn't have a Christian cross, it didn't have the Star of David, it had crescent and a star of the Islamic faith. And his name was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, and he was an American. He was born in New Jersey. He was 14 years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until he can go serve his country, and he gave his life." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxmatt Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 2 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: This thread is now about Trump lmao Don't worry dude, I'll be happy to dunk on you when you dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 24 minutes ago, osxmatt said: Don't worry dude, I'll be happy to dunk on you when you dead. I was thinking his grave will need to be in a secret location to keep people from peeing on it, but he'd probably enjoy knowing his grave is being peed on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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