Colin Powell, military leader and first Black US secretary of state, dies from COVID-19 complication

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  1. Shinebox

    Shinebox Well-Known Member

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    it's obvious you don't care about spreading disinformation ... keep digging ...
     
  2. Polydectes

    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    This is just what people say when they can't argue.
     
  3. Shinebox

    Shinebox Well-Known Member

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    nothing to argue ... you made a claim and cannot back it up ...

    no worries though ... many people here do that ... forum life ya know? ...
     
  4. Polydectes

    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    you made an argument actually saying you didn't believe me.

    Your belief or disbelief is your problem.

    Facts or facts they don't care about your belief
     
  5. Phil

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    So if you have a compromised organ after surviving covid 19 and eventually die from some illness related to the organ you become a victim of covid, even if 19 years have passed?
    I survived covid in December but my lungs are compromised. It looks like covid already killed me.
     
  6. Phil

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    It's strange they vaccinated him while he had cancer. My cousin has cancer and they won't vaccinate him because it might kill him.
     
  7. Phil

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    As to his career: I can't ignore the fact that most of those medals he always wore came for killing Vietnamese.
    It's symmetrical if not ironic that a man whose career began with an ill-advised and poorly orchestrated war would end his career with an ill-advised and poorly orchestrated war.
    Can you think of any similar careers?
     
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    How could anyone have expected Bush Sr. to endorse a Presidential run when any election he might choose could include an opponent named Bush?
     
  9. Phil

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    In 2008 his loyalty to a plurality black man outranked his loyalty to a fellow soldier.
    Why could any draft dodger expect even a vote from a man like Powell?
     
  10. Moriah

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    Since the USA still operates under a system of White privilege, I'm sure General Powell was correct in his judgement. He lived in Alabama for a while when he was younger, so he saw segregation and racism up close.
    He STILL loved the USA despite this. I'd say he was a great man.
     
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    General Powell was free to vote for whoever he wanted to vote for.
     
  12. Tahuyaman

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    So, we are losing our freedoms for decades and you see no reason to stop that trend.

    If yiu are willing to give up your individual liberties because of a virus which is only a threat to 1% of the population, you don't deserve those liberties.
     
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  13. dairyair

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    Everyone knows when one makes a claim without evidence, it's because it doesn't exist.
    So they tell those asking for proof to go search for something that doesn't exist. Or tell them it would just be ignored anyway.
     
  14. dairyair

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    I don't see temporary mask or vaccines as losing our freedoms. As I pointed out to you. Which liberties are you losing?

    I never wanted the Patriot Act enacted and want every pres admin to end it. None of them has. I even addressed in the post you responded to, did you read the post you responded to?
     
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    Nope. He died due to conservative white people not getting vaccinated. That is the narrative the left is going with.

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    Don't you get it man? The vaccines don't work if you have contact with the unvaccinated. It is a new improved kind of vaccine. The kind that you have to get every 6 months and only works if everybody gets them. Everybody wins!
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    many posters here like that ... throw out unsubstantiated garbage and then refuse to back it up ... I could name names but that's probably against the rules ...
     
  17. Tahuyaman

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    . They can say what they want. He died from a blood cancer.
     
  18. Tahuyaman

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    Who said these mandates are temporary?
     
  19. dairyair

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    Well there's never been a country wide mandate of either, so --

    You think you have to wear a mask for the rest of your life because of covid-19?.
    I am not mandated now to wear a mask, are you?
    I am not mandated to get a vaccine at this point, are you?
     
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  20. dairyair

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    That one you asked for proof for does it all the time. Worthless posts from that one in terms of accuracy.
     
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  21. Tahuyaman

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    if one needs to conduct business in certain offices, a mask handset is in effect. In many professions, if one wants to keep their job, a mask mandate is in effect.

    I think that it's quite possible that this will continue for years.
     
  22. dairyair

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    That is hardly a mandate to America.
    Just to fed employees and contractors. Just like any business can do.

    So no permanent loss of liberty due to COVID
     
  23. Tahuyaman

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    Biden just said that he's going to impose a a public / private sector mandate very soon. Of course the US constitution doesn't give him that authority b
     
  24. dairyair

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    Just said it when. I heard him say something a month or more ago, but you're correct, I don't think the constitution will give him that authority.

    So again, no liberties lost. Neither you nor I are mandated.
     
  25. Tahuyaman

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    Tell that to all the government employees who have lost their job.
     
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