The Theft of Haiti's National Sovereignty

Further, dwarfing George Orwell's most surgical satire, Colin Powell told CNN that he would of course help out if he was asked. He was, he said horrified by the destruction of the palace.

"It hit me very deeply. I've been in that palace. I've been to negotiations in that palace and it's a beautiful building," Powell said. "To see it collapse - and when you realize what that meant to the rest of the city - it struck me deeply, and my heart immediately went out to the Haitian people who have suffered so much."

"Negotiations"? Well, not quite.

"History will record the first black U.S. Secretary of State personally engineered the theft of the national sovereignty of Haiti, the world's first black republic", observed The Black Commentator, after the 2004 coup, which ousted .... President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, accusing: "... global American pirates (of creating a) new order which congeals like blood on the streets of Port-au-Prince ..... Such is Colin Powell's horrific legacy ... Powell personally initiated the overt, criminally culpable act in the kidnapping of a head of state."(2)

Ten days later they pointed out: "Powell returned to the scene of his crime last week to assure Gerard Latortue ... US-installed interim Prime Minister; " We are with you all the way".'

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