No one with an once of dignity and justice can accept the endorsement of a man who played a crucial part in the slaughter of more than a million innocent people in a criminal war of aggression. Now is the time to for Barack Obama to reject Colin Powell’s endorsement.
It was Colin Powell that sold the criminal war of aggression at his February 2003 presentation to the United Nations, where Powell laid out the false evidence about Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction. In fact, it was Powell who sealed the deal in selling the war, for at that time Powell’s sterling reputation as honest, honorable, and bipartisan was the deciding factor that convinced so many to line up behind the war.
As for Powell’s attempts to salvage what’s left of his tattered reputation by claiming he was lied to about the WMDs, Jonathan Schwarz destroyed this whitewash attempt by showing how Powell’s "stabbed in the back" argument is undermined by the intellignence reports themselves – reports that Powell read before his U.N. presentation.
Colin Powell knew the case for war was a lie, yet he sold this lie with full knowledge that innocent human beings would die for this lie. Powell is nothing more than a courtier who has dumped the regime he has served for years to latch on to the rising star of Barack Obama.
Barack Obama needs to be getting ready to prosecute this war criminal and the Bush cabal, not accept his endorsement and shake his blood-stained hand.