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[TheMan]

Colin Powell, military leader and first Black US secretary of state, dies after complications from Covid-19

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.

www.cnn.com

This topic has the potential to become political which I know is frowned upon, but his death per se is not. Figured it deserved a mention.

 

[obie]

What kinda asshole names their kid colin

 

[ResilientBanana]

What kinda asshole names their kid colin

Firslty, Colon is the one to watch out for.

Secondly, RIP, Cole Train.

 

[Blade2.0]

Was he not vaxxed for it? I guess he was quite old so even vaxxed covid conditions could take him out. RIP to him.

 

[Kilau]

Was he not vaxxed for it? I guess he was quite old so even vaxxed covid conditions could take him out. RIP to him.

Statement says fully vaccinated. RIP

 

[SlimySnake]

Was he not vaxxed for it? I guess he was quite old so even vaxxed covid conditions could take him out. RIP to him.

Around 1-2% of covid deaths are still fully vaccinated people. He was just unlucky.

Was not a fan of him for getting us into a needless war, but no doubt he's a great American. May he rest in peace.

 

[ManaByte]

Had a boss who served under him in Desert Storm and loved him.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

RIP

 

[Jaysen]

He walked that delicate line of being hated by both sides. RIP

 

[OmegaSupreme]

RIP

 

[jason10mm]

He was loyal, gotta give him that. His whole career has been reduced to that one presentation.

 

[cr0w]

 

[Rat Rage]

PSA: Even if you're fully vaxxed, don't be reckless. Continue to wear your mask at highly populated places with lots of people you don't know.

 

[BigBooper]

Rip C Pow. I had to write a letter to him back in the day for a school project.

 

[CrankyJay™]

PSA: Even if you're fully vaxxed, don't be reckless. Continue to wear your mask at highly populated places with lots of people you don't know.

I suppose. But the main takeaway is the vax is just one factor, and not a cure-all for advanced age and other co-morbidities.

 

[Tschumi]

i wonder if he was vaccinated... if he was anti vax i guess it's apt that the second great lie he uttered got him... when the previous great lie got thousands of americans, iraqis and afghans

 

[Aesius]

PSA: Even if you're fully vaxxed, don't be reckless. Continue to wear your mask at highly populated places with lots of people you don't know.

Better yet, stay the FUCK at home. We are in a global pandemic FFS and people are running around like nothing is wrong.

 

[chromhound]

older people are not safe from covid, vaccinated or not . R.I.P

 

[Rival]

He was Vaxxed but also had some kind of cancer that effects white blood cells plus he was 84.

 

[DeepBreath87]

Better yet, stay the FUCK at home. We are in a global pandemic FFS and people are running around like nothing is wrong.

Yeah, no. He was immunocompromised from cancer. He was also 84. People die at that age. Especially when they have cancer. It isn’t some earth shattering development. Fully vaccinated people should not be staying home. That is ridiculous advice.

 

[InverseAgonist]

He was an American hero and patriot for his military service up to and including Desert Storm. The WMD presentation at the Security Council was unfortunate, but I, for one, don't believe he was being deliberately deceitful beyond the systemic failures of intelligence.

He will be missed. I'll pray for his family.

Yeah, no. He was immunocompromised from cancer. He was also 84. People die at that age. Especially when they have cancer. It isn’t some earth shattering development. Fully vaccinated people should not be staying home. That is ridiculous advice.

Thank you for stating the logical, rational, obvious response that I don't think I could sum up the will to write.

 

[nemiroff]

Yeah, no. He was immunocompromised from cancer. He was also 84. People die at that age. Especially when they have cancer. It isn’t some earth shattering development. Fully vaccinated people should not be staying home. That is ridiculous advice.

And more specifically myeloma cancer, which by definition will reduce your immune system to a smoking pile of rubbish even before chemo starts.

 

[ManaByte]

Statement says fully vaccinated. RIP

 

[Raven117]

The man should have been President. A true hero.

And Robert Gates on 60 minutes last night...he should have been President as well.

The men and women who should be President rarely are.

 

[Star-Lord]

What kinda asshole names their kid colin

What kinda asshole disrespects the dead so soon after their death? Prick.

RIP, Colin.

 

[Kilau]

Right, that is very important. I just wanted to state that he was vaccinated because people get nasty about it.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Yeah, no. He was immunocompromised from cancer. He was also 84. People die at that age. Especially when they have cancer. It isn’t some earth shattering development. Fully vaccinated people should not be staying home. That is ridiculous advice.

Really important point people/media are missing. He had multiple myeloma and was immunocompromised

edit

totally beaten to this

 

[MastaKiiLA]

He walked that delicate line of being hated by both sides. RIP

This kinda sums up my feelings on him. However, his whole yellow cake bullshit performance at the UN forever sullied his image to me. One mistake should never bury a person, but this mistake happened to be colossal and deadly.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Nobody mentions other ailments in this nature for the COVID complication deaths, or gets shunned by the MSM apparatus when doing so. But now it's suddenly time to, neat. Shit is so retarded how political they made this, even more so the hypocritical flip flopping.

Anyways, Rest In Power, General.

 

[badblue]

I heard about Powell on the morning news and they used it as an opportunity to talk about how this shows that booster shots are needed. They never mentioned the cancer.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I understand Colin P. was associated with Bush, Bin Laden, kinda a boring politician, didn’t love everything about the guy, going to war with Iraq was bad but Saddem had to be brought down. I liked putting the blame on Bin Laden after 9/11. Anyone would blow the doors off the taliban after that attack, I’m being kind for Colin. P. but we have to be honest, he felt like a relaxed cool grandpa backed up by veteran war experience.
RIP.

 

[Mistake]

84 is pretty good, considering all the health issues he had/went through

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

He was an American hero and patriot for his military service up to and including Desert Storm. The WMD presentation at the Security Council was unfortunate, but I, for one, don't believe he was being deliberately deceitful beyond the systemic failures of intelligence.

He will be missed. I'll pray for his family.




Thank you for stating the logical, rational, obvious response that I don't think I could sum up the will to write.

That meeting was "unfortunate"? That's quite a flippant way to describe something that resulted in a whole country being destabilized, hundreds of thousands dead (including 60,000+ innocent civilians) and you're going to refer to him as a hero? That's quite a low bar for hero isn't it?

I'm not going to tap dance on his grave here but it's silly to do the inverse and declare him a hero because he's dead now. The guy is far from a hero. If an Afghani leader or some other person from a foreign country had made the same decisions Colin Powell made, resulting in mass deaths and the destabilization of America, would you still label that person a "hero"?

 

[Papacheeks]

Colin Powell, military leader and first Black US secretary of state, dies after complications from Covid-19

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.

www.cnn.com

This topic has the potential to become political which I know is frowned upon, but his death per se is not. Figured it deserved a mention.

Sad day.

 

[GeekyDad]

Wow. That was kinda unexpected.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Rest in piece

 

[RSLAEV]

No respect for this man after that "vial of anthrax" performance. He lived a lot longer than many of the people that suffered due to the war he helped sell.

 

[O-N-E]

PSA: Even if you're fully vaxxed, don't be reckless. Continue to wear your mask at highly populated places with lots of people you don't know.

Better yet, stay the FUCK at home. We are in a global pandemic FFS and people are running around like nothing is wrong.

No.

 

[IntentionalPun]

He was an American hero and patriot for his military service up to and including Desert Storm. The WMD presentation at the Security Council was unfortunate, but I, for one, don't believe he was being deliberately deceitful beyond the systemic failures of intelligence.

He will be missed. I'll pray for his family.

Some of the evidence presented was widely discredited well before being presented, not by conspiracy theorists, but by various agencies all over the world (including domestic agencies.)

His repeated insistence that everyone involved was just a noble public servant who fully believed it was all legit, and that it was all a failure of un-named intelligence folks is part of the reason I lost all respect for him, after losing most of it when he made that presentation in the first place.. I was well aware at the time the evidence was fake, since.... well.. it was widely known lol

 

[DeaDPo0L84]

Better yet, stay the FUCK at home. We are in a global pandemic FFS and people are running around like nothing is wrong.

Smooth brain post.

 

[InverseAgonist]

That meeting was "unfortunate"? That's quite a flippant way to describe something that resulted in a whole country being destabilized, hundreds of thousands dead (including 60,000+ innocent civilians) and you're going to refer to him as a hero? That's quite a low bar for hero isn't it?

I'm not going to tap dance on his grave here but it's silly to do the inverse and declare him a hero because he's dead now. The guy is far from a hero. If an Afghani leader or some other person from a foreign country had made the same decisions Colin Powell made, resulting in mass deaths and the destabilization of America, would you still label that person a "hero"?

First of all, he's a hero and patriot for his service to this country in the military over a lifetime, especially during Desert Storm. I was clear on this.

Also, It wasn't a meeting, it was a presentation to the UN Security Council. Again, I know given the advantages of hindsight that things went to shit and we can pin the point of divergence on the decision to invade Iraq. But at the time in 2002/2003 the entire intelligence system was onboard with what Colin Powell presented as being factual -- see the NIE's on Iraq to that point.

George Tenant, one of the few Director of Central Intelligence that served under both a democrat (Clinton) and republican (Bush) administration said the evidence for WMD was a "slam dunk". That's just a fact. To reiterate as you didn't acknowledge it, what I said was that I don't believe Colin Powell knowingly deceived us with his presentation.

 

[GeekyDad]

...This topic has the potential to become political...

No respect for this man after that "vial of anthrax" performance. He lived a lot longer than many of the people that suffered due to the war he helped sell.

Didn't take long, did it.

 

[6502]

According to bbc news he will be known for pushing the iraq war based on intelligence " of exquisite detail " regarding wmd.

But don't forget the dodgy dossier he referred to (at least in that infamous quote) came from the uk intelligence community. And the insider who was questioning it here died swiftly after raising his concerns.... this isn't entirely on Powell.

If you watch the blair and brown years documentary (currently on iplayer) they cover this and from the blair interview, it is clear they were all pretty convinced they would find something (he was clearly kicking himself whilst putting on a front).

Stepping back and supporting Obama whilst both parties were courting him to be the first black president says to me he was more a public servant than seeker of self service.

I respect the man.

 

[KrakenIPA]

The man had a huge impact on my joining the US Army at 18, for better or worse. Pressing f over here. I hope he found some peace towards the end.
No matter our role in life, we can all look forward to the inevitable.

 

[triplestation]

RIP

 

[Nester99]

Odd that no one is talking about the cancer he is as well.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

RIP Colin Powell; whether I agreed with their politics or not isn't the point. We should have respect for the deceased, even if we disagree with things they've said or done.

So it's not surprising the ERA thread on this is filled with just some of the most disgusting "people" on the internet being absolutely despicable WRT his passing. Seriously, you can see how empty the hearts and lives of a lot of those posters are. How much without morals and basic decency many of them must live by, the desperation in them to use a dead guy as a vector for spewing toxicity and hatred.

I guess it doesn't occur to the ERAtards making a mockery of this passing that he nor Republicans are hardly the only politicians that've said and done some horrible things. But reality escapes people reduced to sheer stupidity out of their hatred and anger, doesn't it?

 

[drganon]

Not that upset to be honest. His service in the military is to be commended but everything he did as secretary of state and after is nothing but an embarrassment.

 

[Kraz]

Amazing life. Good night, sir.

 

[saiws]

powell was a total war hawk, through and through. he started his career helping to explain/cover up the my lai massacre and spent decades ignoring the ill effects of interventionism and encouraging violence towards some of the poorest people on the planet for US material gain. anyone who celebrates this man is a military cuck.