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I see many people here hating on Colin Powell and perhaps there is cause for that. In my opinion though, I will remember him an uncommonly principled man. Did

I see many people here hating on Colin Powell and perhaps there is cause for that. In my opinion though, I will remember him an uncommonly principled man. Did he have party loyalties? Sure. Did they sometimes conflict with his personal views? Sure. I'll admit that there were some disappointments. However, his ultimate ability to break with powerful past loyalties that conflicted with his personal views and to speak publicly about this schism makes him a hero in my opinion. Though he was a staunch republican at the time, there was a brief moment in my life, when members of both political parties hoped he might run for president under their banner. I don't think that can be said of any other modern figure.

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1cvmask 5y ago
War-making is a bipartisan cause. Those against war are considered extreme and fringe
- Kafkish 5y ago
  The key phrase back then was "anti-American". And if you criticized GW when he was leading those war efforts, you were guilty of treason. At least that was what Dick Cheney said.
OneTimePetes 5y ago
What good is frail old man, coming out of the fog of war too late and muttering partial regrets? Does it revive the dead? Rebuild the cities? Heal any wounds or wash toxins from the jungle? The words of the living past to the present are as worthless as the symbolic actions of the left against past injustices, while ignoring the present ones.
gremlinsinc 5y ago
> I will remember him an uncommonly principled man... Might as well say the same of Stalin, Kissinger, Mauo Te sing, ... He literally lied out his ass his entire career, starting with the report on the 1968 Mai Lai massacre ... where he basically white washed and probably strong-armed the media to cover it up, since nobody would touch it for nearly a year until a journalist just blasted it out to as many newspapers as he possibly could reach and like 50 published it, and then bigger publications followed. Otherwise we'd maybe never know of the atrocities we committed during vietnam by massacering women and children. I'd really hate to meet someone you think is an unprincipled man, because honestly I'd hate to meet this guy you think is 'uncommonly principled'.

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1cvmask 5y ago

War-making is a bipartisan cause. Those against war are considered extreme and fringe

Kafkish 5y ago
The key phrase back then was "anti-American". And if you criticized GW when he was leading those war efforts, you were guilty of treason. At least that was what Dick Cheney said.

OneTimePetes 5y ago

What good is frail old man, coming out of the fog of war too late and muttering partial regrets? Does it revive the dead? Rebuild the cities? Heal any wounds or wash toxins from the jungle? The words of the living past to the present are as worthless as the symbolic actions of the left against past injustices, while ignoring the present ones.

gremlinsinc 5y ago

> I will remember him an uncommonly principled man... Might as well say the same of Stalin, Kissinger, Mauo Te sing, ... He literally lied out his ass his entire career, starting with the report on the 1968 Mai Lai massacre ... where he basically white washed and probably strong-armed the media to cover it up, since nobody would touch it for nearly a year until a journalist just blasted it out to as many newspapers as he possibly could reach and like 50 published it, and then bigger publications followed. Otherwise we'd maybe never know of the atrocities we committed during vietnam by massacering women and children. I'd really hate to meet someone you think is an unprincipled man, because honestly I'd hate to meet this guy you think is 'uncommonly principled'.