The image of “Powell” in the minds of Iraqis; A liar who ruined their country.
Iraqis believe that the false testimony of the Secretary of State Bush Jr. in the UN Security Council marked an important part of events that cost the Iraqi people and the region dearly.
For many Iraqis, the name “Colin Powell” suggests an image: the man who went to the UN Security Council in 2003 as Secretary of State to raise the issue of war against their country.
The Associated Press reported on the reaction of the Iraqi people to the death of the former US Secretary of State and added: “The news of his death on Monday at the age of 84 made the Iraqi people feel angry with this general and former American diplomat, one He provoked several Bush administration officials who blamed him for the US-led catastrophic attack on their country; An attack that brought decades of death, chaos and violence to Iraq.
His false testimony at the United Nations was an important part of what the Iraqi people said was costly to Iraqis and others in West Asia.
Reacting to Powell’s death, Maryam, a 51-year-old Iraqi writer and mother of two in northern Iraq who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: “She lied, she lied and she lied. He lied and we are the ones who got stuck in endless wars.
According to the Associated Press, Powell, as chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, oversaw the Gulf War to oust the Iraqi army from Kuwait in 1991 after Saddam Hussein invaded the country. But Iraqis remember Powell more than his speech at the United Nations more than a decade after the attack, in which he called Saddam a major global threat and a weapon of mass destruction, and even a vial of white matter. The color displayed what he claimed was a biological weapon.
Powell called Iraq’s claims that it did not have such weapons a “network of lies.” However, no weapons of mass destruction were found, and the speech was later ridiculed as one of the weaknesses of his profession.
