Comments by "oolong2" (@oolong2) on "Colin Powell's Legacy Is Bound To The Iraq War" video.

  1. Hindsight is 20/20.... How exactly do you broach the topic that the vice president, president, secretary of defense, directory of the CIA, and the national security advisor are all LYING to you?... To call someone a "war criminal" just because they were lied into giving a speech in front of the UN is effing absurd... A "war criminal" is someone who actually wanted a war and waged war crimes, not someone used by the president of the united states to persuade others for that purpose. You act as if Colin Powel wanted to personally slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians. Yes he was fool for being used by a completely corrupt administration, but to call someone "war criminal" based on how that administration used him and then subsequently WENT AROUND THE UN to wage a war of choice is absurd. Blaming a person for not falling on their sword in a way that might have persuaded enough people to maybe stop the neocons from waging that war, is absurd. I believe in blaming people who actually wanted war, not the people who were used along the way. I also don't believe in blaming people who probably would probably would have made different choices if they owned a time machine.
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