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Colin Powell: Establishment warrior

With the death of former UnitedStates Secretary of State Colin Powell on October 18 at the age of 84, only a few key individuals responsible for the brutal U.S.-led wars of the past three decades remain. Operation Desert Storm The Washington establishment accorded Powell most of the credit for the “successful” conduct of the first Gulf War, code-named “Operation Desert …

Colin Powell: A trailblazing legacy, blotted by Iraq war

WASHINGTON — A child of working-class Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, Colin Powell rose from neighborhood store clerk to warehouse floor-mopper to the highest echelons of the U.S. government. Powell rejected comparisons between himself and previous icons like George Marshall, the World War II general who became America’s top diplomat. Powell was the first of President George W. Bush’s Cabinet …

Colin Powell dies, trailblazing general stained by Iraq

WASHINGTON — Colin Powell, the trailblazing soldier and diplomat whose sterling reputation of service to Republican and Democratic presidents was stained by his faulty claims to justify the 2003 U.S. war in Iraq, died Monday of COVID-19 complications. President Joe Biden said Powell “embodied the highest ideals of both warrior and diplomat.” Noting Powell’s rise from a childhood in a …

BAGHDAD — For many Iraqis, the name Colin Powell conjures up one image: the man who as U.S. secretary of state went before the U.N. Security Council in 2003 to make the case for war against their country. Powell had called Iraq’s claims that it had no such weapons “a web of lies.” No WMD were ever found, however, and …