Mohammed Khaku.
Powell, who was the first Black secretary of state, the first Black and youngest chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first Black national security adviser, who died last week due to blood cancer and Parkinson’s disease.
For decades U.S. media have editorialized him as reluctant warrior or American hero. Powell is a war criminal. He masterminded the killing of innocent people from Vietnam to Panama to Nicaragua to Kuwait to Iraq. None of this country ever posed any threat to America.
However, I am awfully uncomfortable, but not apologetic to pin this letter to the editors in response to the eulogizing Collin Powell.
This is the Unity week for the celebration of the birth anniversary of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saw).
But it compels me to pin this letter with the news of the death of Colin Powel. I know this e-mail may rattle a few, but someone must rise to the occasion and speak up! Silent No More!
We do not have to sugarcoat, be politically correct or be apologetic. Collin Powel’s life is not a complicated legacy, nor was he a hero or reluctant soldier.
He is guilty of crime against humanity. He will be remembered as a liar. He did not apologize, nor did he disown the Iraq war.
It was not only faulty intelligence, but a deliberately falsified story for an illegal war, and regime change.
No Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were ever found. That is unforgivable and he will be remember as the protector of the empire.
Powell consciously deceived the world in his 2003 presentation making the case for war with Saddam Hussein. He is responsible for the death of millions of Iraqis.
Lies around WMD in Iraq is a travesty, because he’s made a career out of it and was not a reluctant soldier. He was responsible for the brutal invasion of Panama to kidnap Manuel Noriega on false pretenses similar to WMD.
Colin Powell the secretary of defense at the time of Dick Cheney was responsible for mass murder around the world. CIA and he sponsored an insurgency to try to overthrow the Nicaraguan Sandinista government.
Colin Powell’s bloody legacy from Iraq to Latin America can never be forgotten nor forgiven. He was not a reluctant warrior, but a servant to the empire and a war criminal.
It thus begs the question, why was he not prosecuted for the horrendous war crimes. It was all because of First African American president Obama decide to let Bush administration war criminals go free – “look forward, not backward”
Hitler did many good things like the invention of Volkswagen, high speed trains and was adamant of safeguarding environment,
So did Yazid – massacre on the Day of Ashura, Ariel Sharon – Sabra and Shatila Massacres and Narendra Modi – 2002 Gujarat massacre.
But no one dare eulogize Hitler because he was responsible of killing millions of Jews.
We need to be dignified how we stand for justice. Indeed, we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return.” (2:156 – Al-Quran)
In the struggle for peace thru justice!
Speak Up! Silent No More!
