From Consortium News.
Why Listen to Colin Powell, or Brokaw?
Robert Parry, consortiumnews, October 20, 2008
Not only did Powell lend his personal credibility to Bush at key moments – from the Florida recount battle to the Iraq War to Election 2004 – but a serious examination of his career would reveal a person who consistently has put his career ahead of his country’s best interests. …
As much as U.S. news media stars present themselves as straightforward journalists, they actually operate with a powerful bias in favor of the powerful. To keep their high-paying jobs, they figure out whom they can smear and whom they must treat with respect. …
The U.S. news media’s fawning over Colin Powell also has not been a victimless exercise. By holding Powell up as a near-perfect hero, the news media has allowed Powell to steer public opinion at key moments – from his work containing the Iran-Contra scandal in the late 1980s, to his political embrace of Bush during the Florida recount battle in 2000, to his selling of the Iraq War in 2003, to his support for Bush’s second term in 2004. …
From Chris Floyd,
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien: Obama’s New Advisor Stands By His War Crimes
Just to be clear, Barack Obama’s brand-new foreign policy advisor, Colin Powell, wants you to know that he continues to support the decision to launch a war of aggression against Iraq in March 2003 — an act that, according to principles established by the United States and its allies at Nuremberg in 1945, is a war crime punishable by death.
In fact, the only thing that Powell — the wise and steady statesman, the “grown-up,” the “moderate” — can find to criticize in the conduct of the war he helped launch is the fact that it wasn’t savage enough to begin with. We should have “surged” those sand monkeys from the git-go, he told CNN, as he aligned himself with the genocidal philosophy of noted moderate, grown-up legal philosopher Glenn “Gomer Says Hey” Reynolds, noted for his Augustinian endorsement of the “more rubble, less trouble” school of warcraft.
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From Dissident Voice
Hitler Endorses Obama
Joe Mowrey, Dissident Voice, October 20th, 2008
Okay, that title is a cheap sensationalist tactic to get you to read this article. [The author then goes on to waste a paragraph explaining the title, which is why he should have chosen a different one. The rest is a refreshingly disrespectful take on Powell's endorsement.]
Powell is the guy who, as a bright young 31 year old Army Major, did his level best to keep information about the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam from becoming public. … Queried about his participation in the attempted white wash of My Lai, some 40 years later Powell said, “I mean, I was in a unit that was responsible for My Lai. I got there after My Lai happened. So, in war, these sorts of horrible things happen every now and again…” Personally, I think he sounds really sorry. …
…Like I always say, if your going to support a candidate who doesn’t represent any of the values you believe in, then you can’t have too many bloodthirsty war criminals endorsing him.
From Ranger Against War (emphasis in original)
He Could’ve Been a Contender. . .
October 19, 2008Colin Powell has thrown his weight behind candidate Obama, saying we need a “transformational figure” (Powell Endorses Obama).
Well, you would know from transformational change, Mr. Powell, you who, as Secretary of State, lied before the United Nations in February 2003 shilling for your master George Bush in his trumped up end run to war. You helped effect the most devastating transformational change our society has suffered in recent memory. …
I would not think the endorsement of a war criminal would do much for one’s credibility. Of course, this has nothing to do with race, but Obama already has 95% of the black Democratic vote in the bag.
I’m sure Powell won’t make much of a difference.
michael :: Oct.21.2008 ::
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