Thank you, General Powell, for finally rendering a decisive vote on the Bush-McCain administration.
Back on June 28, 2007, I wrote the following short Letter to the Editor in Time Magazine:
Colin Powell said he “would close Guantánamo not tomorrow but this afternoon.” How about four or five years ago, Mr. Powell, when you should have stood against the prison and the Iraq war prevarication?
Dorian de Wind
Today, I thank the General for giving his powerful and persuasive support to Barack Obama, but most of all for endorsing the ideals, proposed policies, and character of Senator Obama.
In doing so, General Powell has rendered his final and irrevocable repudiation of the Bush-McCain disastrous policies of the past eight years.
He has also irreversibly broken with the Republican Party, a Party which will now politely but soundly reject and condemn the previous Republican icon’s judgment and beliefs.
The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.