Colin Powell Has Passed Away

Just saw on the Alexa spying device in our kitchen that he passed away from 'complications due to COVID-19". Fully vaxxed too. May he rest in peace.

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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    84 years old. Served his country and lived a GREAT life. RIP sir.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,562
    RIP Great warrior
  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,160
    RIP: I had always thought a Colin Powell/Condoleezza Rice presidential ticket would have been a winner for many different reasons.
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  • Milito
    Milito Posts: 1,960
    RIP
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,900
    edited October 2021
    jdjohn wrote: »
    RIP: I had always thought a Colin Powell/Condoleezza Rice presidential ticket would have been a winner for many different reasons.

    Not after the invasion of Iraq. I am pretty sure he was haunted until his dying days that he allowed himself to be used.

    RIP.
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  • Allowed to be used or setup ?

    Reference: his testimony at the UN
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,160
    edited October 2021
    jdjohn wrote: »
    RIP: I had always thought a Colin Powell/Condoleezza Rice presidential ticket would have been a winner for many different reasons.

    Not after the invasion of Iraq. I am pretty sure he was haunted until his dying days that he allowed himself to be used.

    RIP.
    Agreed, but personally I could see past that and would have voted for him anyway...but that's just me. That event definitely killed his trajectory at the time.
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  • Allowed to be used or setup ?

    Reference: his testimony at the UN

    There is just a R.C.H. separating the two.

    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    It is imperative that we recognize that an opinion is not a fact.
  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,160
    Allowed to be used or setup ?

    Reference: his testimony at the UN

    There is just a R.C.H. separating the two.
    Let's see: Rumsfeld, Cheney, and HW vs just W?
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    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon