Colin Powell, military leader and first Black US secretary of state, dies after complications from Covid-19

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Colin Powell at his home in Virginia. Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position.

(CNN)Colin 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.

“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,” the Powell family wrote on Facebook.
“We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” they said, noting he was fully vaccinated.
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 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.
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5 COMMENTS

  1. Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) kicking in just as the renowned Scientist warned.
    #drgeertvandenbossche

  2. Headline reads, “Fully Vaccinated Colin Powell Dies After COVID-19 Complications”

    We’ll soon hear that he was being attended to by some quacks at Walter Reed National Medical Center.

      • You might have to break down the word immunocompromised. The fake doctors and scientists on this site will not get it. Once vaccinated we have eternal life supposedly. I would hope in referring to Powell that he’d be used as an inspiration especially to all Caribbean kids that don’t matter where you come from, you can work very hard and be successful. Instead they chose to delve into the Medical Sciences where they are not qualified. It’s said, ‘ fools rush in where Angel’s fear to thread.’

  3. How do you know that people on this site aren’t qualified in medical science? Are you? And what fake Doctors and Scientists are you referring to? Show me one comment of a person making that claim. People whose first instinct to to insult others intelligence because they have a different opinion shows that they are followers, conformist. IMO, Powell is not someone to venerate, or to inspire children to be like. With a hoax he push America’s hegemony onto militarily weaker nations, stole their natural resources and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Because he got military stripes and purple hearts, made it to the white house, you laud him. Not even Bin Laden killed as many as his lying did.

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