Colin Powell had several bouts of cancer

[malaise]

Covid was just the last straw for his body.

[PJMcK]

1. I won't miss him one bit

He helped lie us into the Iraq War. What an expensive-- in lives and money-- cluster-fuck that turned out to be.

[PCIntern]

3. Don't forget his role in My-Lai massacre

[malaise]

4. M$Greedia is canonizing him live right now

He'll soon be St Colin. It's unbelievable
So convenient that the Slobfather's deposition is no longer important

[forthemiddle]

14. President Biden

Ordered flags flown at half staff at the White House.

[malaise]

15. That's protocol

plain and simple

[Sgent]

17. Not every

General or former Sec State gets half staff privileges, that's usually limited to sitting cabinet members unless designated.

[bullwinkle428]

7. At the VERY LEAST, the media should be using the term "complicated legacy"

when discussing his life.

[PJMcK]

8. Yeah, but don't hold your breath

Next thing you know, Powell will lie instate at the Capitol.

Yuck. War hero? I don't think so.

[mucifer]

2. It's a reminder to those over 65 who got Pfizer to get your booster. Even so

the vaccines don't work for 100% of the population. It just doesn't. I think we forget that.

[malaise]

5. Agree

[LastDemocratInSC]

6. I'm sitting in a waiting room now for my booster.

[marble falls]

9. But to be clear: he had several cancers but Covid is the proximate cause. GOP fundraisers ...

... and meet and greets kill.

[malaise]

10. So true

but we will not be distracted

[marble falls]

12. I've had this conversation with my MiL: Covid didn't kill whoever, he was dying of cancer ...

... "If he was was going to die of cancer and he stepped out of the hospital on Monday and was hit by a meteor, what killed him? Trust me mom, Covid killed him, just like the meteor would have, cancer or no cancer."

[misanthrope]

16. So when an anti-vaxxer attempts to use Powell's death as proof vax doesn't work

do you take the same tack? Or do you factor in his age, Parkinson's and bouts with cancer that utterly destroyed his immune system?

[marble falls]

18. One more time ...

The day after tomorrow I am going in front of a firing squad with no chance at all of reprieve, I get Covid tonight and die of Covid tomorrow, did Covid kill or the firing squad?

I am going to die of incurable cancer of the the left big toe Friday. I get Covid and it makes me unable to breathe and I die. What killed me, Covid or incurable cancer of the toe?

I am going to die of incurable colon cancer, and I get Covid and die on the respirator, what killed me? Covid freaking killed me.

I have been fighting for cancer (no joke) for 10 years and I've documented my struggles here on DU since I was first diagnosed. If I get Covid and it finally chokes the breath from from me, Covid will be what sent me to next Bardo. Anything that steals even one day from me is what killed me.

If you shoot someone who is dying, the law says you killed him. If a cancer patient commits suicide - what killed him, cancer or the overdose of barbiturates?

Why did Dr Kevorkian die in prison? Because his patients died of cancer or because he brought about their deaths prematurely, in an humanitarian gesture or not.

Anything that steals even a day from from a dying patient is the proximate cause of death.

Does anyone really believe that Covid only kills healthy people??????

[malaise]

11. Damn he also had Parkinsons

Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84.

"General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19," the Powell family wrote on Facebook, noting he was fully vaccinated.
Powell had multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells that suppresses the body's immune response, as well as Parkinson's, Peggy Cifrino, Powell's longtime chief of staff, confirmed to CNN. Even if fully vaccinated against Covid-19, those who are immunocompromised are at greater risk from the virus.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/18/politics/colin-powell-dies/index.html

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13. The man was rock. He carried on with a load of problems.