Posted on 10/18/2021 9:57:22 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Mayor Bill de Blasio paid tribute to Colin Powell, who died Monday from COVID-19 complications, saying the Harlem-born first black secretary of state exemplified the best of the Big Apple and made New Yorkers “very proud.”
“General Powell served this nation with just tremendous distinction,” he said Monday morning during his daily press briefing, held remotely in City Hall.
De Blasio noted Powell’s “absolute classic New York City story” of being born to Jamaican immigrants, growing up in Harlem and The Bronx and graduating from Morris High School before attending City College of New York.
“Just an absolute great example of the good, the talent, the ability that came out of New York City, but he took it to the next level,” said the mayor.
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I lost all respect for the man, but sorry to hear this.
Well, Well, Well; I think Powell just recently said he wished he had never given his UN speech about Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction because they just weren’t there.
Although the satellite photos showed them being removed from Iraq and hidden in other places.
Guess old COLON BOWEL just didn’t think they were hidden in FAUCIES LABORATORY to be used at a later date.
Did DeBlasio have anything to do with Powell?
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