I view your site from time to time to see what others are saying about topics relevant to Black people, but never would I have expected to read that you have now come to the same conclusion regarding that handkerchief head, sell-out Colin Powell many of us blogged about when you were so proud of him as a Jamaican.

Colin Powell has always been about Colin Powell and what’s best for Colin Powell. He joined the Republican Party because too many Blacks were a part of the Democratic Party. It was opportunism from the beginning. He went up the ranks of the military because he was a house negro, doing and saying what he needed to advance himself.

Why should you NOW open your eyes to the blatant manipulation of Colin Powell? He hasn’t changed, but now is attempting to distance himself from policies and actions he knew then and knows now were immoral and illegal. He went along to further his own ambitions and to curry favor with the powers that be.

If you hadn’t notice, most Blacks have been saying this from the beginning about Colin Powell. He is a complete sell-out and wouldn’t give the time of day about many Blacks and the dire positions we find ourselves.

He is now a changed man, please. As Public Enemy so eloquently said it “DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE!”

If you lie down with Dogs your bound to get fleas.

Why is this rule #1.

Any person of color that would knowingly attach themselves to
the Republican party knowing for years this group has accepted and promoted Racism needs to have there heads examined.

Black person Political Handbook
Rules
Rule #1 Never trust a Republican
Rule #1a NEVER EVER EVER trust a Black Republican.

Initial investigations of the My Lai incident were undertaken by the 11th Light Infantry Brigade’s Commanding Officer, Colonel Oran Henderson, under orders from Americal Division Assistant Commanding Officer, Brigadier General Young. Henderson interviewed several soldiers involved in the incident, then issued a written report in late April claiming that approximately 22 civilians were inadvertently killed during the military operation in My Lai. The army at this time was still describing the event as a military victory resulting in the deaths of 128 enemies.

Six months later, a 21 year old soldier of the 11th Light Infantry named Tom Glen wrote a letter accusing the Americal Division (and other entire units of the US military, not just individuals) of routine brutality against Vietnamese civilians; the letter was detailed, its allegations horrifying, and its contents echoed complaints received from other soldiers. Colin Powell, then a young US Army Major, was charged with investigating the letter, which did not specifically reference My Lai (Glen had no knowledge of the events there). Powell wrote: “In direct refutation of this portrayal is the fact that relations between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent.” Later, Powell’s refutation would be called an act of “white-washing” the news of My Lai, and questions would continue to remain undisclosed to the public. On 4 May 2004, Powell, then United States Secretary of State, said to Larry King, “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, but they are still to be deplored.”[7]

The carnage at My Lai might have gone unknown to history if not for another soldier, Ron Ridenhour, who, independent of Glen, sent a letter to President Nixon, the Pentagon, the State Department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and numerous members of Congress. The copies of this letter were sent in March 1969, a full year after the event. Most recipients of Ridenhour’s letter ignored it, with the notable exception of Rep Morris Udall. Ridenhour learned about the events at My Lai secondhand, by talking to members of Charlie Company while he was still enlisted.

I don’t see a cover-up. It took a while for the news to get out, but I don’t see that as a cover-up so much as how news travels from the front-line to mainstream media an ocean away. Abu Ghraib was longer than a year ago and I see far less outrage over that, even with the convictions and the far more graphic evidence of brutality (posing with corpses, all smiles and “thumbs up”?)

(and aside to OW: you might wanna reword your first graf, unless you too had a distinguished military career. It reads a little funny first time through.)

Well, yeah, there’s that.
I’m with quaker on this one.

I think he believed he could do some good in this administration, that he could represent the United States as a positive force for change.

Unfortunately, Mr. Powell’s fatal flaw is that he is loyal above all else. When this administration ordered him to push for the invasion, he swallowed his own judgment and did as he was told.

He’ll go down in history as a phony, a drone, and as the Bush administration’s cat’s paw. He could have been so much more.

We could do much worse.

LB

This is man who could have called up any news outlet and been on the teevee in a hot second to explain to the American people that the stuff coming from the White House was a load of dingo’s kidneys. Did he do that? No. He sat in front of the UN with his dog & pony show and little pill bottles full of flour representing the scary anthrax. The same man who created the vaunted “Powell Doctrine”, having to do with not starting wars you don’t know how to get the hell out of.

Now he thinks he’s Robert McNamara, making his “You know, maybe this war wasn’t such a hot idea” mea culpa about 20 years early.

Screw him. I have no further interest in anything he or any of the other war pimps have to say. He will from this point on be remembered by history as a traitor to his own supposed principles and a coward for not speaking out when he above all would have been listened to and could have made a difference.