#ColinPowell, 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 #US war in #Iraq, died Monday of #Covid-19 complications. He was 84. A veteran of the Vietnam War, Powell spent 35 years in the Army and rose to the rank of four-star general before becoming the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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