Colin Powell, whose immune system was weakened, died of Covid-19 after battling cancer

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

36% : Two years later, Powell told Barbara Walters of ABC News that his speech to the United Nations had been "painful" for him personally and would forever be a "blot" on his record.
34% : And he supported leaving a weakened Saddam Hussein in place as a bulwark against Iran and Syria.
34% : In a 76-minute speech at the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003, Powell pressed the U.S. case for a possible war to disarm Iraq, presenting photographs, electronic intercepts of conversations between Iraqi military officers and information from defectors aimed at proving that Saddam Hussein posed an imminent danger to the world.

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