Colin Powell dies, trailblazing general stained by Iraq
By ROBERT BURNS, ERIC TUCKER and EILEEN PUTMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Colin Powell, the trailblazing soldier and diplomat whose sterling reputation of service to Republican and Democratic presidents was stained by his faulty claims to justify the 2003 U.S. war in Iraq, died Monday of COVID-19 complications. He was 84. A veteran of the Vietnam War, Powell spent 35 years in the Army and