Oct 21 2008
Colin Powell’s Endorsement of Obama is not good
Everyone is talking about Colin Powell again. He has endorsed Obama. This is an endorsement the Obama camp should really look into. Colin Powell was a political general who’s career was guided by opportunism. It all started with his fraudulent testimony and evaluation of the My Lai massacare. I’ve written about General Powell’s spotty past before and don’t think an endorsement by him will do Obama much good. I’d sure as hell hate to see Powell in Obama’s cabinet.
Colin Powell was a chief enabler of the Bush administration’s coup d’etat in Haiti. He was responsible for putting Gerard Latortue into power after expelling the elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This is just another disgrace in the long legacy of Colin Powell.
History will record that the first Black U.S. Secretary of State personally engineered the theft of the national sovereignty of Haiti, the world’s first Black republic and the second nation in the western hemisphere to free itself from European rule. Such is Colin Powell’s horrific legacy – an historic shame and blight on the collective honor of Black America.
Powell returned to the scene of his crime last week to assure Gerard Latortue, the evilly buffoonish U.S.-installed interim Prime Minister, “We are with you all the way” – words of encouragement to a man who is said to have estimated it will be necessary to kill 25,000 people in the capital alone to stop calls for the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (see , “A Clandestine Interview from Haiti: Resistance in the Slums of Port-au-Prince,” October 14, 2004).
As if to honor the Secretary, Haitian police killed four men from Aristide’s Lavalas party who they claimed started a gun battle while Powell visited the National Palace. But who knows the real circumstances? Haiti is drenched in blood. “The background is that they’re massacring Lavalas supporters on a daily basis now in most of the Port-au-Prince port areas. People are afraid to come out of their homes,” said Ira Kurzban, an Aristide attorney. “What’s happening in Haiti is what’s happening in Iraq: It’s just total chaos, except there are no U.S. troops on the ground.” (Source: Mindfully.org)
Has everyone forgotten his great lie in the UN Security council? White powder, anthrax, WMDs? Who needs Colin Powell and his bullshit? Is Ralph Nader the only candidate with any integrity? This is one of the reasons that the two party system is such a failure. No real choice.
[...] Colin Powell’s Endorsement of Obama is not goodColin Powell was a chief enabler of the Bush administration’s coup d’etat in Haiti. He was responsible for putting Gerard Latortue into power after expelling the elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This is just another disgrace in … [...]