Laleh Khalili: “Colin Powell’s justification of the Iraq war in 2002/2003 was only one of the more recent times he lubricated the machinery of imperial warfare. In 1968, he covered up the My Lai massacre when he was assigned to investigate a whistleblower report on the massacre.
He was a national security advisor during Reagan’s Dirty Wars in Latin America, oversaw the Panamanian invasion, and whose Powell doctrine about the maximum use of force left smouldering remains of incinerated soldiers in its wake in the 1991 US invasion of Iraq.“