Colin Powell and The Lie

There was a funeral today for General Colin Powell in Washington DC. He died recently from Covid-19 related illnesses. He had been ill and weakened and succumbed to the virus despite being vaccinated. There has been a lot of tributes to Colin Powell the war veteran, chairman of the joint chiefs, national security advisor  and the first African-American secretary of state. He had many accomplishments.

However, he also had a stain on his career that will forever be noted in the first paragraph of any biographic statement. He went to the United Nations and stood before the American people and the world and lied through his teeth concerning the what we now know and he knew at the time was the bogus claims that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction. He did not have the balls to publicly confront the lies and ulterior motives of couple of powerful yellow bellied chicken hawks named  Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. 

I watched some of the funeral ceremony today and listened to him eulogized by many different people who had many wonderful things to say about his life and his being a model and beacon for many minority Americans. Today wasn't the day to criticize his career over one significant shameful blunder that will have ruined his legacy. IMHO. I wish he would have spoken out against the warmongers who were out to get Saddam and the oil of Iraq and used the 9/11 disaster to push their lies. Colin Powell should have resigned rather than stand in front of the world and knowing lie to get America into a war that killed so many people and destroyed the reputation of his country.