{"id":352965,"date":"2021-10-18T14:31:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T14:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/?p=277400"},"modified":"2021-10-18T14:31:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T14:31:54","slug":"colin-powell-who-helped-george-w-bush-lie-nation-into-iraq-war-dead-at-84-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/18\/colin-powell-who-helped-george-w-bush-lie-nation-into-iraq-war-dead-at-84-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Powell, Who Helped George W. Bush Lie Nation Into Iraq War, Dead at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This story first appeared in Common Dreams<\/a> on Oct. 18, 2021. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Colin Powell, the former US Secretary of State who helped President George W. Bush, under whom he served to sell the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the United Nations and the American people, has died at the age of 84.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According<\/a> to the New York Times<\/em>, “He died of complications from Covid-19, his family said in a statement. He was fully vaccinated and was treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, his family said.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2003, Powell, a retired four-star US Army General who also served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs before becoming the nation’s top diplomat under Bush, made the now infamous presentation<\/a> to the UN Security Council in which he claimed that the Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein was hiding a secret chemical weapons program from the international community and supporting international terrorists following the 9\/11 attacks of 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s crucial to remember just how important Colin Powell was to selling the Iraq War, and how deliberately he used his public credibility to boost the lies that pushed us into the war. That is his biggest legacy.<\/p>— Jack Mirkinson (@jackmirkinson) October 18, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>