Give him credit where it’s due. He successfully opposed Bush 41 going further into Iraq. He resigned at the start of Bush 43’s second term when he learned that the WMD thing wasn’t real. He was never the future of the GOP, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have his good points.
Give him CREDIT for that? Powell's "accomplishment" of stopping General Schwarzkopf from entering Baghdad to FINISH the job in the first Gulf War and seizing Saddam when he had the chance? That "accomplishment" directly set the stage for ANOTHER Iraq War 12 years later when Saddam was left to fester on his own and continue to rule as a dictator in the middle east.
I give Powell "credit" for that the same way Joe Biden deserves "credit" for his "successful" evacuation from Afghanistan!