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The Muckrake Political Podcast

Tracing Colin Powell's Mistake To The Political Mess We're In Now

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

With the news that former Secretary of State Colin Powell has died due to complications from covid, co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss in depth his legacy - with mostly memorable moments of historical importance framed around one huge mistake he made in selling the Iraq War to the UN Security Council. They then pull apart more of what motivates Joe Manchin to behave more like a Republican day by day. To support the show and access additional content, including the weekly Weekender episode, become a patron at http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast

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0:00.0

I'm also troubled by what members of the party say.

0:05.0

Such things as, well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.

0:10.0

Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim.

0:12.0

He's a Christian.

0:13.0

He's always been a Christian.

0:14.0

But the really right answer is, what if he is?

0:17.0

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?

0:20.0

Answers, no, that's not America.

0:21.6

Yet I have heard senior members of my own party.

0:24.6

Drop this suggestion, he's a Muslim and it might be associated with terrorists.

0:28.6

This is not the way we should be doing it in America.

0:31.6

What you will see is an accumulation of facts and disturbing patterns of behavior.

0:43.1

The facts in Iraqis behavior, Iraq's behavior, demonstrate that Saddam Hussein and his regime have made no effort, no effort, to disarm as required by the international community.

0:49.8

Indeed, the facts and Iraq's behavior show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction.

1:00.6

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I'm J.R.D.8. Sexton. Nick Housselman is here. He's traveled America longica long and wide the beautiful but he is back and boy

1:13.3

are my arms tired it's it never gets old never ever gets old uh we we got a ton to talk about

1:20.1

today but uh before we do a little bit of breaking news as we were getting ready to record

1:25.5

uh colin pow died today at the age of 84, died from

1:32.3

complications of COVID with an underlying problem of had a case of blood cancer that exacerbated

1:39.9

the COVID, even though he was fully vaccinated. 84ighty-four years old, former Secretary of State,

1:46.7

general, really, really complicated legacy. And I think one of the defining characters of

1:54.8

the last generation, I think you can tell a pretty good story about where we are in America based on Colin Powell.

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