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Recycling Political/Military Garbage: Four Star General Colonic Powell  [Never Served In Combat].

One of the major phenomenon of life that continuously intrigues me,  a polymath individual with an extensive life experience, is how “shit” flows to the surface. 

There is no end to how many times General Colonic Powell of whom I have known, worked against and detested since the Nixon Administration has resurfaced himself  like a bolus of detritus every few years.
Now for whatever it is worth, and in my humble opinion, his endorsement of President Obama is certainly a ‘kiss of death’.  (…Obama to Powell: never mind, don't worry about a public endorsement, pleeeeze keep it to yourself...)

This man, Colin Powell is really bad news for the President, for the US military and most importantly for our country.
There has never been in my thirty years experience (a 32 year old Navy Captain [0-6], Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for four US Presidents…) a more despicable, cowardly military officer who dares to call himself a general of the US military.  BTW, he and Alex Haig, another piece of military garbage, are the only two Four Star Generals in the history of the US Army who have really never seen combat, let alone been wounded in combat and more importantly has never ever served as a Divisional Commander. That’s the equivalent of becoming the principal of a high school without having ever gone to a real high school but instead took a course on the internet on how to manipulate your way to the top.

Sidebar: One other general was not a Divisional Commander but he was a truly great military leader—General / President Eisenhower, one of my favorite generals along with Marshal [completely unrecognized for having masterminded two simultaneous wars –Japan and Europe and of course, the tank warfare genius—Patton].

But my dear readers, this blog is not about the failings of our formidable military, many of whom have been wounded and died for our country in countless incursions, written and undocumented. This story is about the supreme military liar, coward, boot licker and fraud,  I have ever known and despised. And believe me I have met him in a social setting and conveyed the same impression. 

let’s start from the beginning….

  In the late 1970’s when I was in the military and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger [no sweetheart of mine—I worked on my own volition for Larry Eagleburger],  I knew about this young ‘Afro-Caribbean’ officer who was appointed to the White House as WH Fellow and had been sponsored by two prominent Republicans –Caspar Weinberger and Frank Carlucci. 

  Needless to say, that I very quickly found out about his background. He had lied on behalf of his commanding officers in Vietnam about the infamous My Lai massacre where countless of Vietnamese civilians were indiscriminately slaughtered by Lieutenant William Calley. 

Of course, as one expects, the lowest man (Calley) on the political totem pole gets prosecuted and the cowardly liar (Powell) was promoted to Major and sent to George Washington Business School for a MBA. 

Oh, yes , I forgot to tell you that our ‘brave hero’ was injured---ever so ‘slightly’ by having walked accidentally on a “punji” stick for which he was awarded the Purple Heart. 

Sidebar: Now this Colonic Powell aint no dummy.  If you look at Wikipedia and see countless pages of medals that I am certain he ‘refused’ to wear,  you will literally see metals from every country and organization short of Al Qaeda  In other words, this cowardly liar also became a medalholic---  a term I just created in order to describe the endless self-aggrandizement of our ‘first African-American' General.

Now back to our continuing discursive on General Colonic as I will call him.  Loyal to the core,  not the military corps but his own self-promotion,  he got himself involved with the IranContra lies, deceptions and betrayals along with our favorite ‘judenrat' [Jewish Nazi Collaborator] Elliot Abrams, Weinberger [ first words out of this idiot’s mouth was ‘that I am not a  jew’].

Folks, I have to assure you that as a novelist,  I could never make up these stories or create more sordid characters than that Colonic, Weinberger,  McFarland (Pathetic Marine Colonel who tried to commit suicide over his infatuation with the ‘meeskite’ [ugly] Andrea Mitchell).   So now we have sex, betrayal, deceit and Presidential intrigue.  All the while, a Marine Officer name Oliver North is blamed for the entire “Iran Contra" Affair where the good old Iran-hating Israelis were selling 538 US Tow missiles to Iran for our hostages.  Don’t ask me why. It’s another blog and a half. 

  Right now,  we are still not finished with the career of General Colonic who by this time has not even see an ‘terrorist’, ‘an enemy of the state’ and is too busy giving ‘sucking up to the brass’ a major exemplary demonstration. 

Awards or medals (I refused one or two) represent to me a kind of reminder of somebody you never were and never would become.  Whatever I had done for my country was between me, God, and my memories.  Not everything I did or committed in the name of national security was something one would want to brag about. But at the same time, I was never ashamed about what I had done or become.  I wasn’t humble or decent.  I was simply realistic. 

To a psychiatrist,  someone like Colonic Powell was a fascinating study in narcissism, self –aggrandizement, self-delusion, and grandiosity and cowardice. 

In short, Colonic’s political /military white-washed history was a study in how false heroes rise to great heights only to continue to promote their lack of integrity or courage in an endless vertigo of non-sensical pronouncements.  Colonic went up the ladder of ‘suck-ups’ faster than shit through a goose. [Sorry about the mixed metaphor here]. Without any combat or any military experience,  he was promoted to Colonel under President Carter, then to General and National Security Advisor under Reagan where he effectively supervised the unnecessary deaths of 253 Marines who had been blown up in Lebanon.  Now we have a general who commits murder and is not accountable.   Quite amazing. 

  The reason I know this particular fact is that I was against the deployment of Marines to Lebanon for Embassy security because anyone who knew the chaotic nature of the Lebanese Civil War would know that these marines would end up to be canon fodder.  But the Colonic did what he did best--- cover up and allow others to die in the name of National Security.

 

By now,  dear readers, you have a somewhat clear impression that I not only did not respect General Colonic but I truly detested him for all of the aforementioned episodes but even more. I was personally involved in ‘taking out Noriega'.   But Colonic’s history tells another story.  That’s fine.  I write fiction.  He writes non-fiction which is the equivalent of a ‘fairy tale’.

  The bottom line is that I went ‘illegally' and ‘covertly’ into Panama to create what is commonly known in the Intelligence business as ‘agitation propaganda’ and ‘psychological warfare’.  Needless to say, it was quite brutal.  Noriega accused me of ‘being an assassin’.  The good General Colonic threw me out from my safe haven,  Fort Amador, and ordered military personnel not to assist me in any way.  So I did what I did best.  I broke into FT Amador with the help of real combat soldiers—Defense Intelligence Agency, Military Intelligence and others, -- used Colonic’s printing machine and started to distribute ‘propaganda pamphlets' against Noriega.
  When I came back to the State Department,  I had a personal and professional confrontation with Powell's Judenrat—Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams,  now a senior member of the CFR and literally choked him by the throat, to remind Elliot and Colonic that there were brave military and foreign service officers who deserved better treatment from these two miscreants and warned Elliot that the days of ‘reckoning’ was not over.

Of course, I was right!  Elliot and the other “Judenrat Jews’—Wolfowitz,  Feith,  Perle, “Scooter Libby’,  David Wormser (Cheney’s henchman), etc  were once again appearing like cockroaches in a pile of garbage, endorsing and supporting Bush Jr’/Cheney 9/11 Stand down and the myth of Osama bin Laden.

But, dear readers,  Colonic still has not disappeared from our narrative. True to form as a liar and coward and the “Uncle Tom" for Bush Jr,  Secretary Of State Colonic Powell swore that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq and therefore we should attack Iraq and eliminate Sadam Hussein  [who by the way was not killed but sent into ‘hiding’ with a couple of billion US dollars].  Moreover, this moron of a four star general,  who had been refused a fifth star,  showed a small vial of anthrax to the UN and declared it to be a WMD.

Well, I could go on and on. But the moral of the story is simple. 

If victors were to speak, they would say nothing.  If cowards were to brag, they would declare penitence, self-adulation and a narrative that defies fiction. 

A man without valor is a man not worthy of serving in our military or even delineating himself as a US Soldier.

  General Colonic Powell is a testimony to the ignominy of our civilian leaders from Nixon on to Bush Jr,  for having utilized our honorable military uniform in the service of national disgrace, betrayal, and treason.

From my point of view as a veteran, General Colonic Powell has committed more treason than any terrorist I had ‘neutralized’ or any enemy intelligence operative I had ‘doubled’.
He is without any hesitation a disgrace to our country, our military and to his proud African –American heritage.

Ecce Homo!! Behold the man!