Colin Powell, military leader and first
Black US secretary of state, dies after
complications from Covid-19
CNN,
by
Devan Cole
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
10/18/2021 10:37:51 AM
Colin Powell, military leader and first Black US secretary of state, dies after complications from Covid-19 Devan Cole Mon, October 18, 2021, 5:40 AM 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. "General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19," the Powell family wrote on Facebook, noting he was fully vaccinated.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Readaholic 10/18/2021 10:40:43 AM (No. 949692)
The worst thing about the deaths of these demopimps is the hagiographic newsboarding that follows.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
snakeoil 10/18/2021 10:44:05 AM (No. 949695)
Liked him until he went over to the Dark Side and bonded with Obozo. But, nevertheless, RIP.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TurtleDove 10/18/2021 10:51:36 AM (No. 949703)
".....noting he was fully vaccinated."
And [they] wonder why people don't want to get vaxxed.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 10/18/2021 10:52:43 AM (No. 949704)
Guess this means one thing. The vaccines DON'T work.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Phantomll 10/18/2021 10:56:35 AM (No. 949708)
He had multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer that suppresses the body's immune system. Sound as if he died with Covid not because of :Covid.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Quigley 10/18/2021 10:58:37 AM (No. 949711)
Wasn’t he the swell who tricked the Dims into voting to invade iraq- either before or after they voted against it (in a commutative society the order doesn’t matter) in order to kill all those people that lil’ george had daddy issues with?
I agree #1. I’m already tired of it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
konocti95 10/18/2021 10:59:50 AM (No. 949715)
I guess Scooter Libby was unavailable for comment.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
TJ54 10/18/2021 11:07:45 AM (No. 949717)
It’s fashionable in Libtardom to say he died of covid even though he died from cancer
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Califedup 10/18/2021 11:49:25 AM (No. 949763)
Why did the race baiters at CNN have to insert the word black into their story? He was an American. I guess I just answered my own question.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/18/2021 12:35:54 PM (No. 949813)
Just bury the guy and get it over with quick.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 10/18/2021 1:08:19 PM (No. 949848)
If he had been white, he'd have been a very good general. Since he was black, he was overrated and over advanced.
Good general, but affirmative action made everyone pretend he was a great general. He was not. He was an intelligent man and a nice guy, though, I have heard personally from a retired officer who was a former aide of Powell.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
EQKimball 10/18/2021 2:41:38 PM (No. 949941)
In his personal memoir, "My American Journey," Powell recalled that when Bush 41 was defeated by Clinton, the president invited him and his wife Alma to spend a few days with Barbara and himself at Camp David. The President confided that he and the First Lady were exhausted by the campaign, saddened by the election results, and just needed a quiet space to be with their best friends. After accepting the invitation, Powell asked who else would be there. Bush said, "just the four of us." Quite a statement about both of them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
john56 10/18/2021 2:53:19 PM (No. 949951)
Politically, I'm not a fan of Gen Powell. But then again, he was a Bushie and they seem to have turned on those who got them elected. Either way, God rest his soul and comfort his family.
Perhaps the correct way to describe the cause of his death was cancer and Parkinsons, complicated by COVID -- not the other way around. My father died of strokes following Parkinsons disease for over 20 years. Parkinsons caused his death, perhaps the strokes pushed him to his demise. Same with Gen. Powell.
The flu also takes a lot of elderly infirmed people (or at least it did until COVID became the disease-du-jour).
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Jennie C. 10/18/2021 5:19:38 PM (No. 950040)
The man was 84 years old, had Parkinson's disease, and blood cancer. But yeah, he died of COVID. Keep saying that.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Pault135 10/18/2021 5:55:30 PM (No. 950068)
2points: 1. He had a long history of multiple myeloma, a chronic and eventually terminal hematologist Cancer. 2. He was 84 years old. Die is what 84 year olds often do whether or not he has Cancer, Covid or the dreaded Covid vaccination. No one either on the Left or the Right should use the death of a long serving American soldier to push their partisan political agenda.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/18/2021 7:29:52 PM (No. 950130)
I saw Powell, George Bush, and General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. in Dayton, Ohio back in 2000. Not sure about Schwarzkopf, but with the other two, I was so gullible.
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