Many Iraqis remember Colin Powell mainly as the man who used misleading intelligence to make the case before the U.N. in 2003 for war against their country. Powell, who died today at 84, later called the presentation 'a blot on my record.'
“I am saddened by the death of Colin Powell without being tried for his crimes in Iraq. ... But I am sure that the court of God will be waiting for him,” tweeted Muntadher al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist who vented his outrage at the U.S. by throwing his shoes at then-President George W. Bush during a 2008 news conference in Baghdad.
Saddam was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in northern Iraq in December 2003 and later executed by the Iraqi government. Aqeel al-Rubai, 42, who owns a clothes and cosmetics shop in Baghdad, said he doesn’t care if Powell regretted the faulty information he gave on WMD. Elsewhere, Powell was remembered as “a towering figure in American military and political leadership over many years, someone of immense capability and integrity,” by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who backed the U.S. campaign and invasion.
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