Colin Powell has died of complications from COVID-19, he was 84.
In his role as Joint Chiefs of Staff, he oversaw the U.S. invasion of Panama and later the U.S. invasion of Kuwait in response to the Iraqi invasion of that country in 1991.
Powell’s reputation was dealt a blow when, in 2003, he addressed the United Nations Security Council at the behest of President George W. Bush and made the case for war against Iraq. Powell told the United Nations, citing faulty information, that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had secretly stashed weapons of mass destruction.
Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, for their care of Powell. “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father and grandfather and a great American,” the family said.
Former President Bush said he and former First Lady Laura Bush were “deeply saddened'” by Powell’s death, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. “He was a great public servant” and “widely respected at home and abroad,” Bush said. “And most important, Colin was a family man and a friend. Laura and I send Alma and their children our sincere condolences as they remember the life of a great man.”
