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Former President Bush 'deeply saddened' by Powell death
The Hill ^ | 10/18/2021 | MYCHAEL SCHNELL

Posted on 10/18/2021 6:57:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Former President George W. Bush on Monday said he is “deeply saddened” by the death of his first Secretary of State Colin Powell, calling the former diplomat and military leader "a great public servant.”

“Laura and I are deeply saddened by the death of Colin Powell. He was a great public servant, starting with his time as a soldier during Vietnam,” Bush said in a statement issued shortly after Powell's family announced his death on Monday morning.

Powell’s family issued a statement saying that the former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had died at the age of 84 due to COVID-19 complications.

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To: HYPOCRACY
" Hopefull Jorge gets to see him soon "

Only if he cuts in line......I'm rooting for Billy boy or Hilda beast next and next.

61 posted on 10/18/2021 10:14:53 AM PDT by crazy scenario (The burden of Damascus is next!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He was a great public servant, starting with his time as a soldier during Vietnam,” Bush said

Powell helped cover up the My Lai massacre. He then was promoted as they found he was willing to lie no matter what.

Wiki:
Colin Powell, then a 31-year-old Army major serving as an assistant chief of staff of operations for the Americal Division, was charged with investigating the letter, which did not specifically refer to Mỹ Lai, as Glen had limited knowledge of the events there.

In his report, Powell wrote, “In direct refutation of this portrayal is the fact that relations between Americal Division soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent.”

Powell’s handling of the assignment was later characterized by some observers as “whitewashing” the atrocities of Mỹ Lai


62 posted on 10/18/2021 11:01:41 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: gcparent

What I’d like to know is when he got the cancer diagnosis. It was multiple myeloma. Got it before or after vaccine?


63 posted on 10/18/2021 11:01:44 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: SmokingJoe

They’re all in the age bracket where they’re seeing their colleagues pass on. One by one and another one bites the dust.

I will broadly smile the day it’s reported Hillary and Pelosi has passed.


64 posted on 10/18/2021 11:47:39 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Can’t we send a little “Let’s go Brandon” Bush’s way?


65 posted on 10/18/2021 12:40:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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To: fruser1

Before. Read he was suffering for years.


66 posted on 10/18/2021 1:49:26 PM PDT by gcparent (God Bless America )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Was he deeply saddened by Ashli Babbitt’s death?


67 posted on 10/18/2021 1:51:29 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: rktman

Yep, while conveniently forgetting that this guy had a list of health problems a mile long, including multiple cancers.


68 posted on 10/19/2021 7:22:55 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: nagant

Yep, the media loved him. You could always count on Colon Bowel to talk conservative and buckle to the left like a belt. He always went weak in the knees at just the right time. I don’t think it’s an accident that nobody told him about The Highway of Death until the operation was 90% over. Powell’s school of military strategy: get the enemy right where you want them, then pull back and talk about it because killing the enemy that would blow your brains out in a New York second “doesn’t feel right”.


69 posted on 10/19/2021 7:31:09 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: rlmorel

President Donald Trump fully pardoned Libby on April 13, 2018.


70 posted on 10/19/2021 7:50:42 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

Another reason I like Trump! He saw what a travesty it was, and did something about it.

Powell’s perfidy remains, and there is nothing he can do to change that, treasured reputation not withstanding!


71 posted on 10/19/2021 8:56:15 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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