Colin Powell, military leader and first Black secretary of state, dies at age 84 from Covid-19 complicationsColin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84 years old.
"General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid-19. He was fully vaccinated. We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American," the Powell family said.
Powell was a distinguished and trailblazing professional soldier whose career took him from combat duty in Vietnam to becoming the first Black national security adviser during the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and the youngest and first African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under former President George H.W. Bush.
His national popularity soared in the aftermath of the US-led coalition victory during the Gulf War, and for a time in the mid-90s, he was considered a leading contender to become the first Black President of the United States. But his reputation would be forever stained when, as George W. Bush’s first secretary of state, he pushed faulty intelligence before the United Nations to advocate for the Iraq War, which he would later call a “blot” on his record.
Condolences to his family. But let’s not also forget he is a war criminal who made a false and fabricated 76 minute speech to the UN that backed Bush’s hard on to invade Iraq. An invasion that led to hundreds of thousands Iraqis losing their lives & over 4,000 U.S soldiers dying
Rest In Peace. Thank you for your service
A small bottle of washing powder in his hand, the death of thousands of American soldiers, the lives of tens of thousands of poor Iraqi people, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees.
For all the antivaxxers and anti covid vaxxers commenting here, Powell literally had myeloma which is cancer of the plasma b cells in your immune system. That made him immunocompromised. On top of that he was 84. Both of those factors made it less effective for him
Lol fully vaccinated, such great news!!!
He killed hundreds thousands innocent people in Iraq.
This guy use the washing powder to invade Iraq?
This was a man and a Republican that l could fully respect. Sadly those days are long gone. May he Rest In Peace.
Working with him Ft McPherson, GA a true honor and privilege.
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