Colin Powell, creator of the viral anti-war meme featuring himself holding a stage prop while lying to the United Nations about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, has died at the age of 84.
Excellent. The “respect the dead” bs is always applied to the perps and not their victims. Respect the dead victims by calling war criminals exactly what they are and especially at their death when they are briefly the focus of attention.
Your framing things this way was brilliant, as is so often the case; a talent not to be overlooked.
The default position when regarding the statements of any government should be one of healthy skepticism. With the United States, this skepticism can safely be increased 100-fold.
I don't believe the act of dying makes one noble; only living a decent life can do that. I suppose they say don't speak ill of the dead because they aren't around to defend themselves. You know who else isn't around to defend themselves? At least a hundred thousand Iraqis.
It must be noted that I under-counted the number of innocent Iraqi dead due to criminals like Colin Powell by a mere 900,000, give or take, and didn't even get around to mentioning the number extinguished by him and his like in the bloody jungles of Vietnam.
Thank you for the kind words but please don't put me in a rank, or yourself either. Caitlin brings us both here and together we share and react to what she has to say. Leave the ranks to the Army.
THANK YOU !!!!! - drowning in bipartisan hagiographies of a mediocre general who promoted Iraq invasion killing and injuring MILLIONS of people -- by shaking a bottle of anthrax at UN...
While another soldier is brutally punished -- now even by solitary confinement.
Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Imprisoned In “Communications Management” Unit Designed For Terrorists == effectively in solitary confinement
Already Alexis de Tocqueville was consternated with use of this torture in the US - several centuries ago !!!
Daniel is the first person convicted for an unauthorized disclosure of information to the press to be incarcerated in a CMU, which the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) claims is for terrorists and “high-risk inmates.”
Brutal punishment is for spoiling St. Obama's legacy of “killing only militants”- with truth of mass killings by drones by Obama's criminally redefined terminology -- “militant” is any male above 18 year of age
Note that his son, Michael Kevin Powell (born March 23, 1963) become deeply corrupt chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. There he spearheaded creation of monopolies and media concentration to only seven companies.
"War is a Racket" and Colin Powell was a chief enforcer for the corporate gangster racketeers. He was not a patriot, b'cuz patriots don't lie to the people to start wars. He was a war criminal who followed illegal and immoral orders because he saw himself as a "good soldier."
in an evil system, the worst elements (scum) float to the top, logically. from this truism flows all the other analyses, opinions, conjectures, etc. thank you Caitlin for putting these awful realities in clear, incisive, and thus enjoyable (!) writing, again.
Note that this obedient apparatchik of ruling "elite" started early -- he investigated and whitewashed My Lai massacre issuing his finding about excellent relationship between population and US soldiers -- two years later, thanks to courageous whistleblowers, this and zillion other massacres emerged.
Continuity, Abu Ghraib horror was - "few bad apples only", still "secret" three-fingers in the eye torture in Guantanamo is "selective" only, Daniel Hale in solitary confinement but Assange will be treated "more humanely"
Excellent. The “respect the dead” bs is always applied to the perps and not their victims. Respect the dead victims by calling war criminals exactly what they are and especially at their death when they are briefly the focus of attention.
Your framing things this way was brilliant, as is so often the case; a talent not to be overlooked.
The default position when regarding the statements of any government should be one of healthy skepticism. With the United States, this skepticism can safely be increased 100-fold.
I don't believe the act of dying makes one noble; only living a decent life can do that. I suppose they say don't speak ill of the dead because they aren't around to defend themselves. You know who else isn't around to defend themselves? At least a hundred thousand Iraqis.
We must stop elevating the worst among us.
It must be noted that I under-counted the number of innocent Iraqi dead due to criminals like Colin Powell by a mere 900,000, give or take, and didn't even get around to mentioning the number extinguished by him and his like in the bloody jungles of Vietnam.
Thank you for the kind words but please don't put me in a rank, or yourself either. Caitlin brings us both here and together we share and react to what she has to say. Leave the ranks to the Army.
Who are these international socialist gangsters that Colin Powell allied himself with?
THANK YOU !!!!! - drowning in bipartisan hagiographies of a mediocre general who promoted Iraq invasion killing and injuring MILLIONS of people -- by shaking a bottle of anthrax at UN...
While another soldier is brutally punished -- now even by solitary confinement.
Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Imprisoned In “Communications Management” Unit Designed For Terrorists == effectively in solitary confinement
Already Alexis de Tocqueville was consternated with use of this torture in the US - several centuries ago !!!
Daniel is the first person convicted for an unauthorized disclosure of information to the press to be incarcerated in a CMU, which the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) claims is for terrorists and “high-risk inmates.”
https://thedissenter.org/drone-whistleblower-daniel-hale-sent/
Brutal punishment is for spoiling St. Obama's legacy of “killing only militants”- with truth of mass killings by drones by Obama's criminally redefined terminology -- “militant” is any male above 18 year of age
Note that his son, Michael Kevin Powell (born March 23, 1963) become deeply corrupt chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. There he spearheaded creation of monopolies and media concentration to only seven companies.
"War is a Racket" and Colin Powell was a chief enforcer for the corporate gangster racketeers. He was not a patriot, b'cuz patriots don't lie to the people to start wars. He was a war criminal who followed illegal and immoral orders because he saw himself as a "good soldier."
in an evil system, the worst elements (scum) float to the top, logically. from this truism flows all the other analyses, opinions, conjectures, etc. thank you Caitlin for putting these awful realities in clear, incisive, and thus enjoyable (!) writing, again.
Note that this obedient apparatchik of ruling "elite" started early -- he investigated and whitewashed My Lai massacre issuing his finding about excellent relationship between population and US soldiers -- two years later, thanks to courageous whistleblowers, this and zillion other massacres emerged.
Continuity, Abu Ghraib horror was - "few bad apples only", still "secret" three-fingers in the eye torture in Guantanamo is "selective" only, Daniel Hale in solitary confinement but Assange will be treated "more humanely"