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GENERAL POWELL SPEAKS

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan is a Muslim.  He was killed in Iraq. One small important fact may change how you think of him. Kareen Rashad Sultan Khan was an American Solider killed in the line of duty. He received the purple heart and the bronze star. General Collin Powell saw a picture in the New Yorker magazine of Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan's mother with her face pressed up against the gravestone of her twenty year old son who will never turn twenty one.  And after staring at that picture for about an hour Collin Powell decided he had enough. As detailed in Maureen Dowd's Op Ed piece this past week, Powell went on Meet the Press last Sunday, and for the first time in this long debate we are having about about Muslims and Islam, expressed the true ideals of America:From the Op Ed piece (the title links to the whole article)He told Tom Brokaw that he was troubled by what other Republicans, not McCain, had said: ? ?Well, you know that Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).