Colin Powell dead

[Grey Havoc]

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/577152-colin-powell-dies-at-age-of-84
Complications from a breakthrough case of Covid-19 apparently. Despite his service as SecState, he was probably best known for his role (while still in the Army as head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) in Operation Desert Storm, aka the Liberation of Kuwait in the early 1990s, not to mention the creation of the associated Powell Doctrine.



Rest In Peace

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ex...covid-complications-facebook-post-2021-10-18/

 

[FighterJock]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ex...covid-complications-facebook-post-2021-10-18/

Just heard on the BBC news channel, so sad that it was due to Covid-19, just goes to show that it is still out there. Rest In Peace.

 

[TomcatViP]

Very sad indeed. RiP

 

[Archibald]

Oh damn... didn't realized he was 84. After Rumsfeld, another of the major 2003 Iraqi war key players is gone.

R.I.P.

 

[uk 75]

A fine man.

 

[Justo Miranda]

I did not help my country during a crisis provoked by Morocco to bring down the Aznar government. A bad ally. RIP.

 

[AeroFranz]

He seemed to be a man of integrity. The whole 'going into Iraq because of WMDs' is a stain on his record, but to be fair he accepted some of the responsibility for going with it. I can't think of anyone in Washington who would accept some of the blame and risk - by God- being held accountable.

 

[yasotay]

I doubt we shall see a man of his stature for some time in coming years. Men, like him, are rare indeed. Rest well Sir, and a fair journey to Fiddlers Green.

 

[BAROBA]

RIP.
He was a sheep amongst the wolfs in the White House.
But he was a great and fine commander on the field..

 

[Lc89]

Great general, good leader, but bad politician.