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Colin Powell, RIP
Colin Powell, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of State under George W. Bush, has died from complications of Covid-19. He was 84.
Family statement:
We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.
We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment.
Powell had been previously diagnosed with multiple myeloma. May he rest in peace.
Published in Healthcare
Precisely. And the military has declared we are in a state of war so that everyone who serves get veterans benefits. Until 1991, only wartime veterans get VA benefits. Now everyone does. One reason why VA hospitals are having trouble is because they have to provide services to everyone for their entire life even if they only served a few months. It’s a big scam.
I’ve said all I have to say. I stand by my positions and I think that’s pretty much the accepted understanding. Anyone that thinks we would have rolled into Iran is, frankly, more nuts than Bill Kristol. We didn’t have the stomach to keep Afghanistan, and to think we could have stabilized Iraq and Iran is beyond utopia. It’s never never land. And we saw we couldn’t stabilize Iraq without great cost
But I’m repeating myself. Im out of this conversation. You guys can keep dreaming scenarios.
Another reason is every servicemember who gets old or fat is suddenly somehow disabled now. It’s disgusting listening to paper-pushers with 18 months to go suddenly attack their disability rating like they were “jumping into Fallujah” (Jeremy DeWitte ref).
It’s alternate history so there’s no way for anyone to say what’s most likely. Iran is the biggest sponsor of terror in the world, and I don’t know about you, but I’m still really pissed off about the Iranian hostages. It would have been an easy sell. Remember, the war was very popular when it started and only got unpopular when the American people got the impression we weren’t in it to win.
And I can attest that when we demobilized we had to sit through the VA lecture where they tell us to please claim every scratch and discomfort, and be sure to claim you have PTSD because that’s a lot of money you’re leaving on the table if you don’t. Sometimes when people retire, it’s like a contest to see who can get the most money out of the VA. PTSD is a popular favorite because you can’t prove you have it or don’t have it, it allows you to bring your ill-mannered dog wherever you go, and it’s easy money.
It’s shameful what the nanny-staters do to people. Shameful.
Yup.