By Zamboni
It's too bad that the country lost a prominent anti-Trump Republican voice today. Benedict Donald is so destructive, and the GOP has descended into such madness, that we Democrats have even welcomed guys like former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh to our side (imagine!). So we long ago were pleased to see Colin Powell training his verbal guns on Trump and Trumpism.
But for us, the defining image of Colin Powell is this one. Back in 2003, he sat before the United Nations and lied us into the Iraq War. Although he later admitted it was a mistake and claimed that he had warned George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in 2002 about breaking and owning stuff, we were never impressed — particularly when Powell stood by as the administration he worked for smeared a triple-amputee Vietnam veteran so the GOP could pick up his Georgia Senate seat that year.
So yes, appreciate Powell's disdain for Trump, his support for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden for President, and his head-butting with Cheney. But never forget that his 76 minutes before the UN helped send us into a ridiculous war that killed more than 4,400 US servicemen. Maybe that pales next to the hundreds of thousands Trump murdered with COVID, but it's troubling nevertheless. We cats HISS.
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