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Wanted Person No: 0377-S03 |
Najar Kidnapping |
Sent-Complain Letters |
Published: 14.05.2009 Updated: 14.05.2009 |
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Who Kidnapped me? |
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Information wanted on this
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Bad general-03: Colin
Powell ex-Foreign minister, ex-Joint Chief of staff, ex-general and many
others professions designed to make him to be as vicious as he was while
pretending to be a good peaceful man, how can a general and one of the
architects of the Iraqi war(s), plural, be peaceful and a good man? He is one
of the most deceiving men a life and also one of the most vicious men and
that most definitely, based on my guess and the pattern, would be very
visible within his official and hidden family members around his life Note: See below what I know
about this person based on the Internet information of Wikipedia. Photos. See also: Bad generals, American military, German
police, American military intelligence agents as members of my household, the American military intelligence secret camp in 1959 in USA that simulated the
city of Damascus, Syria where I was brainwashed in it, Bush family, “Rockefeller Family tree”,
“All Families”, “Rockefeller family members in my life”, American military intelligence agents disguised as
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My persecution and brainwash by my fake family that
consisted of some of my biological family members of the Windsor,
Rockefeller, Kennedy and
Bush families that were eager and would do anything to
cover up their real identities in the Middle East, including killing innocent
people. During a period when Siemens AG was
trying hard to get my attention to what my fake
family was actually doing. During a period when the German police was constantly persecuting me to use
me and prove that my fake families are terrorists and drug lords. During a
period when the Americans disguised as German in and around Munich, Germany
such as Unterschleissheim, Hoehenbrunn,
Unterhaching, Baldham and other, were desperate to shut me up in that they
persecuted me and brainwashed me while pretending to be German Christians.
During a period when all of them together were preparing either to kill me or
kidnap me to USA, which they did. During a period when my fake and biological
families persecuted me very viciously after I discovered that they were
printing a fake Quran in cooperation with the Saudi Arabian government at the Clett Verlag in Stuttgart, Germany to implicate
the alleged German Nazis that were allegedly hiding in the Middle East, in
short to implicate the Germans, because Germany was used by USA and England
as scapegoat for all the crimes they were performing in the hidden and
described within this website, such as terrorism, drugs and mass child
kidnapping and molestation to create as many children as quick as possible
that they can brainwash and claim them to be native of the Middle East.
During a persistent period that my fake and biological families tried to link
me to PLO and
Palestinian terrorists. My brainwash, enslaving with the help of the CIA, Mosad, American/English/Syrian military intelligence under their agent whore Najlaa Mahmoud and kidnapping to USA
through the illegal American/English/Syrian military
intelligence project Calypso and in
cooperation with the brainwash and kidnap company UDF
Consulting AG in cooperation with professor
Dr. Fischer alias Ali Bark, Dr. Farzat Baroudi alias professor
Joachim Sauer and Mr. Ruge alias John D. Rockefeller the Third and USA
vice-president and later USA president George H. W.
Bush. Where they kept me letterly as hostage and slave for 15 years in
USA and then dumped me in Holland identity and legal paperless to force me to
live as a refugee with absolute no rights what so ever as cover up for all
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Photo-A01-A09: Collin Powel, note that he tried to show as if he
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Photo-B01: Collin Powel, very in these photos that he
is a mixed Chinese, Japanese or other Asia Chinese look and is 100% against
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Colin
Luther Powell (born
April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a former four-star general
in the United States Army.
He was the 65th United States
Secretary of State (2001-2005), serving under President
George W. Bush. He was the first African American appointed to that
position.[1][2][3][4]
During his military career, Powell also served as National
Security Advisor (1987–1989), as Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Army
Forces Command (1989) and as Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993), holding the
latter position during the Gulf War. He was
the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Early life
Colin Luther
Powell was born on April 5, 1937[5] in Harlem, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan to Jamaican immigrant parents Luther
Theophilus Powell and Maud Arial McKoy and was raised in the South
Bronx. He also
has Scottish and Irish ancestry.[6][7] Powell attended Morris High School, a former public school in The
Bronx, from which
he graduated in 1954. While at school, he worked a local shop
where he picked up Yiddish
from the shopkeepers and some of the customers.[8] He earned a bachelor's degree in geology from City College of New York, attaining a C average, according
to his 2006 graduation address at Marymount University. He earned an MBA from The George Washington University, after his second tour in Vietnam in 1971.
Powell
pronounces his name "KOH-lin."[9] Public officials and radio and
television reporters have used Powell's preferred pronunciation.
Powell
joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at City College and later described it as one of
the happiest experiences of his life; discovering something he loved and could
do well, he felt he had "found himself." Cadet Powell joined the Pershing Rifles, the ROTC fraternal organization and drill team begun by General John
Pershing. Even after
he had become a General, Powell kept on his desk a pen set he had won for a
drill team competition. Graduating from City College in June 1958, he received
a commission as an Army second lieutenant.[10] He was a professional soldier for
35 years, holding a variety of command and staff positions and rising to the
rank of General.[11]
While
serving with the Third Armored Division in Germany as a lieutenant, he met Elvis
Presley, who was
serving in that unit. Powell was a captain during the Vietnam
War, serving as
a South Vietnamese Army adviser from 1962 to 1963. While on
patrol in a Viet
Cong-held area,
he was wounded by stepping on a punji stake.[12] He returned to Vietnam as a major in 1968, serving in the Americal Division (23rd Infantry Division), then as
assistant chief of staff of operations for the Americal
Division. He was charged with investigating a detailed letter by Tom Glen (a
soldier from the 11th Light Infantry Brigade), which backed up rumored
allegations of the My
Lai Massacre. Powell
wrote: "In direct refutation of this portrayal is the fact that relations
between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent." Later,
Powell's assessment would be described as whitewashing the news of the massacre, and
questions would continue to remain undisclosed to the public. In May 2004
Powell said to Larry
King, "I
mean, I was in a unit that was responsible for My Lai.
I got there after My Lai happened. So, in war, these sorts of horrible things
happen every now and again, but they are still to be deplored." [13]
Powell
served a White House fellowship, a highly selective and prestigious
position, under President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1973.
In his
autobiography, My American Journey, Powell named several officers he
served under that inspired and mentored him. As a lieutenant colonel serving in South
Korea, Powell was
very close to General Henry "Gunfighter" Emerson. Powell said he regarded Emerson as
one of the most caring officers he ever met. Emerson was reputedly eccentric;
he insisted his troops train only at night and made them repeatedly watch the
television film Brian's
Song to promote
racial harmony. Powell always professed, however, that what set Emerson apart
was his great love of his soldiers and concern for their welfare.
In the early
1980s, Powell served at Fort Carson, Colorado. There, he had a major clash with
General John Hudachek, his commander, who said in an efficiency evaluation
that Powell was a poor leader who should not be promoted. Powell's rising
military career was unhindered by Hudachek's evaluation report. After he left
Fort Carson, Powell became senior military assistant to Secretary of Defense Caspar
Weinberger, whom he
assisted during the 1983 invasion of Grenada and the 1986
airstrike on Libya.
In 1986, he
took over the command of V Corps in Frankfurt, Germany, from Robert Lewis "Sam"
Wetzel. Following the Iran
Contra scandal,
Powell became Ronald
Reagan's National
Security Advisor, serving from 1987 to 1989. In 1989, Powell was promoted to
General and briefly served as the Commander in Chief, Forces Command
headquartered at Fort McPherson, Georgia. Later that year, Reagan selected
him as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- Second Lieutenant: June 9, 1958
- First Lieutenant: December 30, 1959
- Captain: June 2, 1962
- Major: May 24, 1966
- Lieutenant Colonel: July 9, 1970
- Colonel: February 1, 1976
- Brigadier General: June 1, 1979
- Major General: August 1, 1983
- Lieutenant General: March 26, 1986
- General: April 4, 1989
- Combat Infantryman Badge
- Expert Infantryman Badge
- Ranger
Tab
- Parachutist Badge
- Pathfinder Badge
- Air Assault Badge
- Presidential Service Badge
- Secretary
of Defense Identification Badge
- Joint
Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge
- Army Staff Identification Badge
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Defense Distinguished Service
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(with Oak Leaf Cluster) |
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Army Commendation Medal
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Presidential Medal of Freedom
(order of precedence, if worn) |
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Presidential Citizens Medal
(order of precedence, if worn) |
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National Defense Service Medal
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Vietnam Service Medal
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Army Overseas Service Ribbon
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- Republic
of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation
- Republic of Vietnam Campaign
Medal
- Honorary Order of the Bath (KCB) (United Kingdom)
- Légion
d'honneur (France)
- Meritorious
Service Cross
(M.S.C.) (Canada)
- Order of Stara Planina in the
First Order (Bulgaria)[14][15]
President Ronald Reagan and National Security Advisor
Powell in 1988
At the age
of 49, Powell became Ronald
Reagan's National
Security Advisor, serving
from 1987 to 1989 while retaining his Army commission as a lieutenant general. After his tenure with the National Security Council, Powell was promoted to a full general under President George
H.W. Bush and briefly
served as Commander-in-Chief (CINC) of the Army's Forces Command (FORSCOM), overseeing all Army,
Army Reserve, and National Guard units in the Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto
Rico.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff
General Colin Powell, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff,
waves from his motorcade during the Persian Gulf War, Welcome Home Parade, held
in New York City, New York.
His last
military assignment, from October 1, 1989 to September 30, 1993, was as the
12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest military position in
the Department of Defense. At age 52, he became the youngest
officer, and first Afro-Caribbean American, to serve in this
position. In 1989, he joined Dwight D. Eisenhower and Alexander
Haig as the
third general since World
War II to reach
four-star rank without ever being a divisional commander.[16] During this time, he oversaw 28
crises, including the invasion of Panama in 1989 to remove General Manuel
Noriega from power
and Operation Desert Storm in the
1991 Persian
Gulf War. During
these events, Powell earned his nickname, "the reluctant warrior." He
rarely advocated military intervention as the first solution to an international crisis, and instead usually prescribed diplomacy and containment.
Powell (left) sits alongside Paul
Wolfowitz (right) and
Norman Schwarzkopf (middle) listening as Secretary of
Defense Dick
Cheney hosts a
press conference during the Gulf War.
In his autobiography, Powell said he is haunted by the nightmare of the Vietnam War and felt that the leadership was very ineffective. Powell served a tour in Vietnam as a military adviser, and was mildly injured when he stepped on a bamboo "punji stick
." The large infection made it difficult for him to walk, and caused his foot to swell for a short time, shortening his first tour. It was also during his Vietnam service, his second tour, that Powell was decorated for bravery. He single-handedly rescued several men from a burning helicopter, one of them being Maj. Gen. Charles Gettys, the commander of the Americal Division.Additionally,
Powell has been critical of other instances of U.S. foreign policy in the past, such as its support
for the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. From two separate interviews in
2003, Powell stated in one about the 1973 event "I can't justify or
explain the actions and decisions that were made at that time. It was a
different time. There was a great deal of concern about communism in this part of the world.
Communism was a threat to the democracies in this part of the world. It was a
threat to the United States."[17] In another interview, however, he
also simply stated "With respect to your earlier comment about Chile in the 1970s and what happened with
Mr.
Allende, it is not
a part of American history that we're proud of."[18]
As a military strategist, Powell has advocated an approach
to military conflicts that maximizes the potential for success and minimizes
casualties. A component of this approach is the use of overwhelming force,
which he applied to Operation Desert Storm in 1991. His approach has been
dubbed the "Powell
Doctrine."
Powell's
experience in military matters made him a very popular figure with both
American political parties. Many Democrats admired his moderate stance on
military matters, while many Republicans saw him as a great asset associated
with the successes of past Republican administrations. Put forth as a potential
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in the 1992 U.S.
Presidential Election[19] or even potentially replacing Vice
President Dan
Quayle as the
Republican Vice Presidential nominee,[20] Powell eventually declared himself
a Republican and began to campaign for Republican candidates in 1995. He was
touted as a possible opponent of Bill
Clinton in the 1996 U.S. Presidential Election, possibly capitalizing on a split conservative vote in Iowa[21] and even leading New
Hampshire polls for
the GOP nomination,[22] but Powell declined, citing a lack
of passion for politics.[23] Powell defeated Clinton 50-38 in a
hypothetical match-up proposed to voters in the exit polls conducted on Election Day.[24] Despite not standing in the race,
Powell won the New Hampshire Vice-Presidential
primary on write-in
votes.[25]
In 1997
Powell founded America's Promise with the objective of helping
children from all socioeconomic sectors. Powell often wears the
organization's logo in the form of a red wagon pin on his lapel.
In the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election Powell campaigned for Senator John
McCain and later Texas Governor George
W. Bush after the
latter secured the Republican nomination. Bush eventually won, and Powell
was appointed Secretary of State.
Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza
Rice and
Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld listen to
President George
W. Bush speak.
As Secretary of State in the Bush administration, Powell
was perceived as moderate. Powell was unanimously voted in by the United States Senate. Over the course of his tenure he
traveled less than any other U.S. Secretary of State in 30 years.
On September 11, 2001, Powell was in Lima, Peru, meeting with President Alejandro Toledo and US
Ambassador John
Hamilton, and attending the special session of the OAS
General Assembly that subsequently
adopted the Inter-American Democratic Charter. After the terrorist attacks, Powell's job became of critical
importance in managing America's relationships with foreign countries in order
to secure a stable coalition in the War on Terrorism.
Powell came
under fire for his role in building the case for the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. In a press statement on February
24, 2001 he had said that sanctions against Iraq had prevented the
development of any weapons of mass destruction by Saddam
Hussein. As was the
case in the days leading up to the Persian Gulf War, Powell was initially opposed to a
forcible overthrow of Hussein, preferring to continue a policy of containment.
However, Powell eventually agreed to go along with the Bush administration's
determination to remove Hussein. He had often clashed with others in the
administration, who were reportedly planning an Iraq invasion even before the
September 11 attacks, an insight supported by testimony by former terrorism
czar Richard
Clarke in front of
the 9/11
Commission. The main
concession Powell wanted before he would offer his full support for the Iraq
War was the involvement of the international community in the invasion, as
opposed to a unilateral approach. He was also successful in
persuading Bush to take the case of Iraq to the United
Nations, and in
moderating other initiatives. Powell was placed at the forefront of this
diplomatic campaign.
Computer-generated image of an
alleged mobile production facility for
biological weapons, presented
by Powell at the UN Security Council. On May 27, 2003, US and UK experts examined the
trailers and declared they had nothing to do with biological
weapons.[26]
Powell's chief
role was to garner international support for a multi-national coalition to mount the invasion. To this end,
Powell addressed a plenary session of the United Nations Security Council on February 5, 2003 to argue in
favor of military action. Citing numerous anonymous Iraqi defectors, Powell
asserted that "there can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological
weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more."[27] Powell also stated that there was
"no doubt in my mind" that Hussein was working to obtain key
components to produce nuclear weapons.[27]
Most
observers praised Powell's oratorical skills. However, Britain's Channel
4 News reported
soon afterwards that a UK
intelligence dossier that Powell
had referred to as a "fine paper" during his presentation had been
based on old material and plagiarized an essay by American graduate
student Ibrahim al-Marashi.[28][29] A 2004 report by the Iraq
Survey Group concluded
that the evidence that Powell offered to support the allegation that the Iraqi
government possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) was inaccurate.
A Senate
report on intelligence failures would later detail the intense debate that went
on behind the scenes on what to include in Powell's speech. State Department
analysts had found dozens of factual problems in drafts of the speech. Some of
the claims were taken out, but others were left in, such as claims based on the
yellowcake forgery.[30] The administration came under fire
for having acted on faulty intelligence. Reports have indicated that Powell
himself was skeptical of the evidence presented to him.[citation needed]
Powell later recounted how Vice President Dick
Cheney had joked
with him before he gave the speech, telling him, "You've got high poll
ratings; you can afford to lose a few points." Powell's longtime aide-de-camp, Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, later characterized Cheney's view
of Powell's mission as to "go up there and sell it, and we'll have moved
forward a peg or two. Fall on your damn sword and kill yourself, and I'll be
happy, too."[31]
In September
2005, Powell was asked about the speech during an interview with Barbara
Walters and
responded that it was a "blot" on his record. He went on to say,
"It will always be a part of my record. It was painful. It's painful
now."[32]
Wilkerson
said that he participated in a hoax on the American people in preparing
Powell's erroneous testimony before the United Nations Security Council.[33]
Because
Powell was seen as more moderate than most figures in the administration, he
was spared many of the attacks that have been leveled at more controversial
advocates of the invasion, such as Donald Rumsfeld and Paul
Wolfowitz. At times,
infighting among the Powell-led State Department, the Rumsfeld-led Defense
Department, and Cheney's office had the effect of polarizing the administration
on crucial issues, such as what actions to take regarding Iran and North
Korea.
Secretary Powell with NATO Secretary
General Jaap
de Hoop Scheffer.
After Saddam
Hussein had been deposed, Powell's new role was to once again establish a
working international coalition, this time to assist in the rebuilding of
post-war Iraq. On September 13, 2004, Powell testified before the Senate
Governmental Affairs Committee,[34] acknowledging that the sources who
provided much of the information in his February 2003 UN presentation were
"wrong" and that it was "unlikely" that any stockpiles of
WMDs would be found. Claiming that he was unaware that some intelligence
officials questioned the information prior to his presentation, Powell pushed
for reform in the intelligence community, including the creation of a national
intelligence director who would assure that "what one person knew,
everyone else knew."
Colin Powell holding a model vial of anthrax while giving a presentation to the United Nations Security Council
Powell
announced his resignation as Secretary of State on November 15, 2004. According
to the Washington
Post, he had
been asked to resign by the president's chief of staff, Andrew
Card.[31] Powell announced that he would stay
on until the end of Bush's first term or until his replacement's confirmation
by Congress. The following day, Bush nominated National Security Advisor Condoleezza
Rice as Powell's
successor. News of Powell's leaving the Administration spurred mixed reactions
from politicians around the world — some upset at the loss of a statesman
seen as a moderating factor within the Bush administration, but others hoping
for Powell's successor to wield more influence within the cabinet.
In
mid-November, Powell stated that he had seen new evidence suggesting that Iran was adapting missiles for a nuclear
delivery system.[35] The accusation came at the same
time as the settlement of an agreement between Iran, the IAEA, and the European
Union.
On December
31, 2004, Powell rang in the New Year by throwing the ball in Times
Square with New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, ushering
in the year 2005. He appeared on the networks that were broadcasting New
Year's Eve specials
and talked about this honor, as well as being a native of New York City.[36]
After
retiring from the role of Secretary of State, Powell returned to private life.
In April 2005, he was privately telephoned by Republican senators Lincoln
Chafee and Chuck
Hagel,[37] at which time Powell expressed
reservations and mixed reviews about the nomination of John
R. Bolton as
ambassador to the United
Nations, but
refrained from advising the senators to oppose Bolton (Powell had clashed with
Bolton during Bush's first term).[38] The decision was viewed as
potentially dealing significant damage to Bolton's chances of confirmation.
Bolton was put into the position via a recess appointment because of the strong opposition in
the Senate.
Powell with United
Nations
Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon.
On April 28,
2005, an opinion piece in the The Guardian by Sidney
Blumenthal (a former
top aide to President Bill
Clinton) claimed
that Powell was in fact "conducting a campaign" against Bolton
because of the acrimonious battles they had had while working together, which
among other things had resulted in Powell cutting Bolton out of talks with Iran
and Libya after complaints about Bolton's
involvement from the British. Blumenthal added that "The foreign relations
committee has discovered that Bolton made a highly unusual request and gained
access to 10 intercepts by the National Security Agency. Staff members on the committee
believe that Bolton was probably spying on Powell, his senior advisors and
other officials reporting to him on diplomatic initiatives that Bolton
opposed."[39]
In July
2005, Powell joined Kleiner,
Perkins, Caufield & Byers, a well-known Silicon
Valley venture
capital firm, with
the title of "strategic limited partner."
In September
2005, Powell criticized the response to Hurricane
Katrina.[40] Powell said that thousands of
people were not properly protected, but because they were poor rather than
because they were black.
On January
5, 2006, he participated in a meeting at the White
House of former
Secretaries of Defense and State to discuss United States foreign policy with
Bush administration officials. In September 2006, Powell sided with more
moderate Senate Republicans in supporting more rights for detainees and
opposing President Bush's terrorism bill. He backed Senators John
Warner, John
McCain and Lindsey
Graham in their
statement that U.S. military and intelligence personnel in future wars will
suffer for abuses committed in 2006 by the U.S. in the name of fighting
terrorism. Powell stated that "The world is beginning to doubt the moral
basis of [America's] fight against terrorism."[41]
Also in
2006, Powell began appearing as a speaker at a series of motivational events
called Get Motivated, along with former New York Mayor Rudy
Giuliani. In his
speeches for the tour, he openly criticized the Bush Administration on a number
of issues. Powell has been the recipient of mild criticism for his role with Get
Motivated which has been called a "get-rich-quick-without-much-effort,
feel-good schemology."[42]
Most
recently he joined the Board of Directors of Steve
Case's new
company Revolution Health. Powell also serves on the Council on Foreign Relations Board of directors.[43]
Powell, in
honor of Martin Luther King Day, dropped the ceremonial first puck
at a New York Islanders hockey game at Nassau Coliseum on January 21, 2008. On November
11, 2008, Powell again dropped the puck in recognition of Military Appreciation Day and Veterans
Day.[1][2]
Recently,
Powell has encouraged young people to continue to use new technologies to their
advantage in the future. In a speech at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies to a room of young professionals, he said,
"That’s your generation…a generation that is hard-wired
digital, a generation that understands the power of the information revolution
and how it is transforming the world. A generation that you represent,
and you’re coming together to share; to debate; to decide; to connect
with each other."[44] At this event, he encouraged the
next generation to involve themselves politically on
the upcoming Next America Project, which uses online debate to provide policy
recommendations for the upcoming administration.
In 2008,
Powell served as a spokesperson for National Mentoring Month, a campaign held each January to
recruit volunteer mentors for at-risk youth.[45]
Soon after Barack
Obama's 2008 election, Powell began being mentioned as a
possible cabinet member.[46]
A moderate Republican, Powell is well known for his
willingness to support liberal or centrist causes.[47] He is pro-choice regarding abortion, and in favor of "reasonable" gun
control.[47] He stated in his autobiography that
he supports affirmative action that levels the playing field,
without giving a leg up to undeserving persons because of racial issues. Powell
was also instrumental in the implementation of the military's Don't ask, don't tell policy.[47]
The Vietnam
War had a profound effect on Powell's views of the proper use of military
force. These views are described in detail in the autobiography My American
Journey. The Powell
Doctrine, as the
views became known, was a central component of US policy in the Gulf
War (the first
U.S. war in Iraq) and U.S. invasion of Afghanistan (the overthrow of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan following the events of 9/11). The hallmark of both operations
was strong international cooperation, and the use of overwhelming military
force.
Powell was
the subject of controversy in 2004 when, in a conversation with British Foreign
Secretary, Jack Straw, he reportedly referred to neoconservatives within the Bush administration as
"fucking crazies."[48] In addition to being reported in
the press (though generally, the expletive was censored in the U.S. press), the
quote was used by James
Naughtie in his book, The Accidental American: Tony Blair
and the Presidency, and by Chris
Patten in his book,
Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain, and Europe in a New Century.
In a letter
to Sen. John McCain, General Powell expressed
opposition to President Bush's push for military tribunals of those formerly and currently
classified as enemy
combatants.
Specifically, he expressed concern of Bush's plan to "amend the
interpretation of Article III of the Geneva Conventions." He also pointed out that
perception of the War
on Terror may be
losing moral support saying, "The world is beginning to doubt the moral
basis of our fight against terrorism."[49]
In an
interview in July 2007, Powell revealed that he had spent two and a half hours
trying to persuade Bush not to invade Iraq, but that he did not prevail. At the
Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado[50] Powell stated, "I tried to
avoid this war. I took him [Bush] through the consequences of going into an Arab country and becoming the
occupiers."[51]
Powell went
on to say that he believed Iraq was in a state of civil war. "The civil war will
ultimately be resolved by a test of arms. It's not going to be pretty to watch,
but I don't know any way to avoid it. It is happening now." He further
noted, "It is not a civil war that can be put down or solved by the armed
forces of the United States," and suggested that all the U.S. military
could do was put "a heavier lid on this pot of boiling sectarian
stew."[52]
Role in presidential election of
2008
Powell
donated the maximum amount to John
McCain's campaign
in the summer of 2007[53] and in early 2008, his name was
listed as a possible running
mate for
Republican nominee McCain's bid during the 2008 U.S.
presidential election.[54] However, on October 19, 2008,
Powell announced his endorsement of Barack
Obama during a Meet
the Press interview,
citing "his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his
campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is
and his rhetorical abilities," in addition to his "style and
substance." He additionally referred to Obama as a "transformational figure."[55][56] Powell further questioned McCain's
judgment in appointing Sarah
Palin as the vice
presidential candidate, stating that despite the fact that she is admired,
"now that we have had a chance to watch her for some seven weeks, I don't
believe she's ready to be president of the United States, which is the job of the vice
president." He
pointed out how he thought Obama's choice for vice-president, Joe
Biden, was ready
to be president. He also added that he was "troubled" by the
"false intimations that Obama was Muslim." Powell stated that "[Obama] is a Christian — he's always been a Christian... But the
really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a
Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America." Powell then
referenced Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, a Muslim American soldier in the U.S.
Army who served
and died in the Iraq War. He later stated, "Over the last seven weeks, the
approach of the Republican Party has become narrower and narrower [...] I look
at these kind of approaches to the campaign, and they trouble me."[55][56] Powell concluded his Sunday morning talk show comments, "It isn't easy for
me to disappoint Sen. McCain in the way that I have this morning, and I regret
that [...] I think we need a transformational figure. I think we need a president who is
a generational change and that's why I'm supporting
Barack Obama, not out of any lack of respect or admiration for Sen. John
McCain."[57] Later in a December 12, 2008 CNN interview with Fareed
Zakaria, Powell
reiterated his belief that during the last few months of the campaign, Palin
pushed the Republican party further to the right and had a polarizing impact on it.[58]
Powell
married Alma
Johnson on August
25, 1962. Their son, Michael Powell, was the chairman of the FCC from 2001 to 2005.
Powell's
civilian awards include two Presidential Medals of Freedom, the President's Citizens Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Secretary of State
Distinguished Service Medal, the Secretary of Energy Distinguished Service
Medal, and the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award. Several schools and other
institutions have been named in his honor and he holds honorary degrees from
universities and colleges across the country.
- In 1991, Powell was inducted
into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans,[59]
which "honors the achievements of outstanding individuals in U.S.
society who have succeeded in spite of adversity and of encouraging young
people to pursue their dreams through higher education."
- On November 9, 1993, Powell was
awarded the second Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, by President
Ronald Reagan.
Powell served as Reagan's National
Security Advisor from 1987-1989.[60]
- On December 15, 1993, Colin
Powell was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath by Queen Elizabeth II of the United
Kingdom.
- In 1998, he was awarded the
prestigious Sylvanus
Thayer Award by the
United
States Military Academy for his commitment to the ideals of "Duty,
Honor, Country."
- The 2002 Liberty
Medal was
awarded to Colin Powell on July 4 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In his acceptance speech,
Powell reminded Americans that "It is for America, the Land of the
Free and the Home of the Brave, to help freedom ring across the globe, unto
all the peoples thereof. That is our solemn obligation, and we will not
fail."[61]
- The Coat of Arms of Colin
Powell was granted by the Lord
Lyon in Edinburgh on February 4, 2004.
Technically the grant was to Powell's father (a British subject) to be
passed on by descent. Scotland's King
of Arms is
traditionally responsible for granting arms to Commonwealth citizens.
Blazoned as:
Azure, two swords in saltire points downwards between
four mullets Argent, on a chief of the Second a lion passant Gules. On a wreath
of the Liveries is set for Crest the head of an American bald-headed eagle
erased Proper. And in an escrol over the same this motto, "DEVOTED TO
PUBLIC SERVICE."
The swords and stars refer to the former general's career, as does the
crest, which is the badge of the 101st Airborne (which he served as a brigade
commander in the mid-1970s). The lion may be an allusion to Scotland. The
shield can be shown surrounded by the insignia of an honorary Knight Commander
of the Most honorable Order
of the Bath (KCB), an
award the General received after the first Gulf War.
- In 2005 Powell received the Bishop
John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award for his contributions to
Africa.
- AARP honored Powell with the 2006 AARP Andrus Award, the
Association’s highest honor. This award, named in honor of
AARP’s founder, Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, is presented biennially to
distinguished individuals who have generated positive social change in the
world, and whose work and achievements reflect AARP’s vision of
bringing lifetimes of experience and leadership to serve all generations.
- In 2005 Colin and Alma Powell
were awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public
Service by the
Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution.
- Colin Powell was initiated as
an honorary brother in Sigma Phi Epsilon.
- Powell is a recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given
by the Boy Scouts of America.
- A street
in Gelnhausen, Germany was named after him:
"General-Colin-Powell-Straße".[62]
- In 2002, scholar Molefi
Kete Asante listed Colin Powell on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.[63]