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So now that Gen. Collin Powell has endorsed Obama, are we supposed to forget that it was his active lying to the UN Security Council that paved the way to the bloody quagmire in Iraq that has taken the lives of thousands of innocent civilians as well as our own soldiers? Or is it okay to remember that he is just as dishonorable as McCain?
And I know it's popular to handwave his actions away. "He was just being a good soldier." Fuck that shit. He knew he was lying. He did it anyway. "Following orders" is not a defense. And no matter what he does now, no matter who he endorses, I will never forgive him for trading on his supposed integrity to sell an unjust, unjustified, bloody war.
If I live to be one hundred, I will never understand why everybody wants to give Powell and McCain passes for dishonoring themselves in front of the nation.
And I know it's popular to handwave his actions away. "He was just being a good soldier." Fuck that shit. He knew he was lying. He did it anyway. "Following orders" is not a defense. And no matter what he does now, no matter who he endorses, I will never forgive him for trading on his supposed integrity to sell an unjust, unjustified, bloody war.
If I live to be one hundred, I will never understand why everybody wants to give Powell and McCain passes for dishonoring themselves in front of the nation.