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Hat Tip Gordon Campbell
It may come to no surprise to Washington Insiders that Colin Powell is playing a perverse political game with his denunciation of the Republican Party and endorsement of Barack Obama. Former U.S. Marine captain and helicopter pilot, Ted Sampley is ” a ten-year veteran of the U.S. Army who served seven years as a Green Beret. He served two combat tours in Vietnam and is publisher of the U.S. Veteran Dispatch. Sampley is a long-time veterans activists who testified before the 1990 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs.”

He wrote of the long political history of Colin Powell characterized more by being “water bucket boy” to his Pentagon mentors, than being a “boot and action” soldier. Captain Sampley gave very specific account of Powell’s intrigues and treachery and even his participation in a cover-up of missing POW’s, that the Nixon and H.W. Bush administration wanted the American Public to forget about: “Powell was just beginning to earn his degree in political treachery studying under Carlucci and Weinberger when President Richard Nixon made a politically convenient decision to ignore high level intelligence which told of large numbers of American prisoners of war being held back as hostages by the communist Vietnamese and their Laotian puppets after the war ended. Nixon’s decision to declare all “missing” Americans dead caused a controversy which has plagued Washington decision makers to this day”. Actually, Captain Sampley gave a long list of such treacherous and political involvements in Powell’s career.

Now, we know that Obama has kept George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, or, as he called him the other day, William Gates, for the initial part of the administration. However, he will have to replace him, and most likely, that will be Colin Powell in a “quid-pro-quo for his endorsement.

“The field Negro was beaten from morning to night; he lived in a shack, in a hut; he wore old, castoff clothes. He hated his master. I say he hated his master. He was intelligent. That house Negro loved his master, but that field Negro — remember, they were in the majority, and they hated the master. When the house caught on fire, he didn’t try to put it out; that field Negro prayed for a wind, for a breeze. When the master got sick, the field Negro prayed that he’d die. If someone came to the field Negro and said, “Let’s separate, let’s run,” he didn’t say, “Where we going?” He’d say, “Any place is better than here.”

Malcolm X