Colin Powell is a war criminal in the same mold as Hitler's foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Von Ribbentrop never fired up the ovens. He didn't machine gun people in trenches that were really mass graves. What he did was to lie, threaten, and violate international agreements to facilitate Hitler’s crimes. That's why he was found guilty at Nuremberg.

Colin Powell served both Bush's and Clinton as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, National Security Advisor Secretary of State. He facilitated the genocides of Clinton and Bush2 and the criminal oil war of Bush1 in defense of the homophobic parasites who own Kuwait.

The fact that he’s endorsing Obama means that Powell feels safe that he won't be indicted as a war criminal as long as Obama continues the war and that he agrees with Obama’s war policy, which will enlarge and expand an unwinnable war causing more deaths and putting the finishing touches on the destruction of our economy and standard of living.

Powell’s endorsement would be coldly rejected by anyone with an ounce of decency, which is why Obama will revel in it.

Hell, yeah. Colin Powell! Next up: Sen Richard Lugar (R-IN). Here in Indiana, he's refused to campaign for McCain or even mention his name. He's our senior Senator, one of the most respected men in the state (even Democrats venerate Dick Lugar), he's worked with Obama on Russian nukes, and Indiana is a battleground state.

Evan Bayh has already endorsed Obama. Throw in Lugar too and it's a done deal in Indiana. Turn us blue.

I agree with Ricci, btw, Powell quit just because he didn't agree with the Iraq War. He opposed it and only sold it to the UN after BushCo lied to him. He's repeatedly said how much he regrets doing the pitch to the UN. I forgive him.

And now we have the evidence of what I was saying yesterday - Obama has raised more money than he can possibly spend in the next two weeks.

Biden alone brought in nearly 2.5 million at three campaign stops in the SF Bay Area yesterday afternoon.

Who is left to be convinced after at least 18 months of campaigning it is clear that 10 million, 20 million or 100 million dollars will not change the minds of an American that just can't envision an Obama presidency by now.

In light of the post that Mr. Crawford wrote at Bilerico a few days ago - where he outlined all of the supportive thoughts, words and ideas that Obama has in regard to the LGBT community, now is the perfect time to ask him to give money to the three campaigns that will restrict our citizenship if they pass in two weeks.

Give $1 million dollars now to each campaign, Obama. If you won't actively put yourself in the spotlight with your vocal opposition to these amendments then give money.

Without support now these amendments may very well pass.

Why are you withholding your support when it is clear you can afford it?

Do you believe in our liberty or not?

I cannot judge Colin Power nor his motives; for I don't know him. However, his argument is logically valid and sound.

Michael, perhaps you read my reply to Ricci about Powell’s record of lying about Mai Lai and providing cover for the genocide there, just as he provided cover for Clinton and Bush’s genocides in Iraq. Do you still think you should be excusing his role as a war criminal? Did that change your mind even a little?

Because I remember your lame response that his war crimes were OK because Powell’s covering himself with a fig leaf by opposing the racism of the party he’s supported for decades. How could he be part of the party that ran the Willie Horton ads and not have a glimmer on insight into them.

But did you know, Michael, that Powell himself harbors a great deal of bigotry and prejudice for some sectors of society? Can you guess who they are? Can you spell GLBT?

Would you be so kind as to check out this recent video of Colin Powell speaking about his bigotry regarding GLBT soldiers and his continued support for Clinton’s infamous DADT?

I know how upsetting facts can be for some people, but for those who want to know about Colin Powell and why's he's so much like Barak Obama politically here's the link:

http://blip.tv/file/260394/

Well, I am annoyed by this. Not by the fact that Powell endorsed Obama - that can only help the Obama campaign. But by the fact that Powell is still considered a respectable member of the national political dialogue.

Considering what he did during the Bush administration in helping to fabricate the case for the War in Iraq, I find it surprising that anyone would care about his judgment, insight, or values right now. The war he wanted is still going on, and it's killed, injured, and displaced millions of Iraqi people. It's killed over 4200 American soldiers.

It's the same basic problem that I had with the Hillary campaign during the primaries - we were asked to simply forget her vote for the Iraq War. The sheer lack of judgment, if she was actually tricked into as she claimed, or the sheer lack of morality, if she actually wanted a war with Iraq, should have been enough to disqualify her from the job in a sane world.

Just this morning Thomas Friedman was on This Week, discussing policy options for Iraq and Afghanistan. Again, why do we care what he thinks? He was the chief neoliberal cheerleader for this war, and he actually thought setting up a democratic government in a country with no history of democracy would be easy. There's a certain level of arrogance about the superiority of western culture it takes to make arguments like that, and there's a certain level of brokenness in our discourse if we're looking to him for advice on foreign policy.

And it goes on and on. This is hurting the left, since we rely on the hope that people show an ability to mature and care about others, and in society to collectively learn from its mistakes and moral failings. But we can't do that when these very same people are back telling us who to vote for again, telling us what to do in other countries, without, at the very least, their history of abuse of that public discourse preceding every statement they make.

So the image I have of Powell is him at the UN telling the world about the weapons Iraq is constructing based on debunked websites and shady intelligence. In fact, he admitted years later that he thought the case for WMD's was weak, and he said in 2001 that he thought Saddam was "contained." But in between that time, he was willing to send what was estimated two years ago to be around three quarters of a million Iraqi people to their deaths.

For what? Career advancement? Loyalty to Bush? War thirst?

Sure, there's no use in trying to reeducate the American electorate two weeks before an election. It makes sense for Obama to taut this endorsement right now. If I were him, I'd do the same.

I'm just saying that the fact that anyone cares what he thinks shows that the left has already lost.