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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (136299)8/27/2013 4:10:09 PM
From: ChinuSFO  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 149317
 
.....but "blew it" on Desert Storm.

How so.



To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (136299)8/27/2013 6:37:49 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 149317
 
He knew it and he made a Faustian bargain! He also knew exactly how he was being used. We all knew it at the time!

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It was up to Powell to make sure he wasn't being "used". He is/was well intended, but "blew it" on Desert Storm. He never got that he was the "token" black for the Pubs and their "gang" politicos.


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