Maybe I’ll read Powell’s e-mails and maybe I won’t, because my first reaction is the same as it’s been for years. He had a chance to be a great hero and resign from the Bush administration under protest of its propaganda campaign against Iraq that led up to that war. Powell knew exactly what Bush and his gang were up to. Powell could have been a man of honor. Yet he disgraced himself by caving in and presenting a speech at the UN that he knew to be a lie. He went along with the thugs. He deferred to Bush. He failed to dissent in public when loud dissent in public was the very thing that this country and Iraq needed. Through this failure, he placed loyalty to the State above the American people and he condemned the Iraqi people, many to death, many to injury, most all to greater misery. He obeyed his superiors. He didn’t rock the boat. He kept his position.

Now in private he calls Donald Trump a “national disgrace”, which describes Colin Powell himself perfectly with respect to this decision.

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