The Photo That Moved Colin Powell Leftward

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

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Part of what turned the tide for Powell and made him jump ship from the R’s to the D’s was a photo by Platon in The New Yorker. It showed a mother draped over the tombstone of her son, a 20-year-old Muslim-American soldier named Cpl. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. Powell said he was disheartened by the tone of the current Republican party and its anti-Islamic rhetoric directed at Obama.

http://discarted.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/the-photo-that-moved-colin-powell-leftward/

[rgbecker]

1. Powell asks, "what is wrong with being Muslim in America?"

[ColbertWatcher]

6. I mocked this up the other day for another thread ...

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Oh, and don't forget George Oilwellian's video ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4269939&mesg_id=4269939

[RoseMead]

11. Trains of thought

should be the caption for that! :rofl:


edit to clarify: I'm talking about the pic in reply #1, not the OP photo. Don't wanna confuse anybody.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. That is a Pulitzer Prize quality photo if I ever saw one.

It may have the level of impact of that picture of the little Viet Namese girl running after her clothes were burned off by napalm.

[Lifetimedem]

3. At the time he said that

I wondered why he had to read the stone as the mothers scarf would have told an observer he was of arab/muslim decent..

This mom appears to be african american, I wonder if the son converted to Islam as a teen or if he was a "black Muslim"?

[MissMillie]

4. RIP Cpl Khan

and thank you for your service

[ColbertWatcher]

5. The best part of Powell mentioning that photo: it was published in The New Yorker. n/t

[ikojo]

8. Colin Powell, who sired the former head of the FCC, has

not suddenly become a dove or a liberal. I will give that he is a thinking person and any thinking person can see the train wreck that is McCain/Palin. He's smart enough to know that those who hate Muslims also hate blacks and Jews. I bet he still considers himself a Repubican when it comes to policy.

[ColbertWatcher]

10. He did say "my party." n/t

[zbdent]

9. according to Arlington:

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/krkhan.htm

[Mabus]

12. What a young man.

There's a big hole in that family now. Oh man. That hurts. Thanks for posting it. What a good looking young man he was.

[FatDave]

13. Just seeing "Operation Iraqi Freedom" on a military headstone disgusts me.

I know, that's not the point of the photo or the post, but it's true. It's such a fucking pathetic name for a war. It's not even a war, it's an operation!

Fuck these clowns. When Bush and Cheney die, I will make a special trip to dance on their graves.