Colin Powell Dead at 84 From COVID-19 Complications

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell died Monday greeting owed to complications from COVID-19, his household announced successful a statement. He was 84.

His household said successful a connection the erstwhile president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was afloat vaccinated and had been receiving attraction astatine Walter Reed National Medical Center.

“General Colin L. Powell, erstwhile U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed distant this greeting owed to complications from COVID-19," the household connection said. "He was afloat vaccinated. We privation to convey the aesculapian unit astatine Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We person mislaid a singular and loving husband, father, gramps and a large American."

Powell was a four-star wide who served arsenic caput of authorities nether Republican President George W. Bush, the archetypal African American to service successful the job. He served arsenic president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff nether some Bush and Democratic President Bill Clinton.

Powell was calved successful New York City, the lad of Jamaican immigrants.

Probably the astir arguable infinitesimal of his vocation came earlier the United Nations successful 2003 erstwhile helium argued the lawsuit for invading Iraq to halt a weapons program. The programme did not exist.

Powell aboriginal told PBS' "Frontline" that the code was a “blot” connected his record.

He famously warned Bush that if helium did spell to warfare with Iraq, "You recognize the consequences."

"You cognize you're going to beryllium owning this place?" The New York Times reported successful 2004.

Powell was among Bush's advisers astir wary of invading Iraq. He resigned arsenic caput of authorities aft Bush was re-elected.

In 2020, Powell called erstwhile President Donald Trump a liar, who had drifted distant from the Constitution.

"We person a Constitution. We person to travel that Constitution. And the president's drifted distant from it," Powell told CNN.

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