Colin Powell, first Black secretary of state who struggled with Iraq invasion, dies of covid complications

 Colin Powell, first Black secretary of state who struggled with Iraq invasion, dies of covid complications

Powell helped guide the U.S. military to victory in the 1991 Persian Gulf War as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A decade later, he struggled over the U.S. invasion of Iraq as a beleaguered secretary of state under President George W. Bush. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/colin-powell-dead/2021/10/18/fdc71fde-c5db-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3503bac%2F616d99c99d2fda9d41164f32%2F59741f459bbc0f1cdcfbb98e%2F9%2F72%2F616d99c99d2fda9d41164f32