Colin Powell No Hero

Many nice things are being said about Colin Powell following his death and he may well have been a very nice man who done great things while but to me he was always one of the unscrupulous George W Bush gang who lied their way to war.
He did later say that he regretted his actions at the United Nations, calling it a blot on his record, which resulted in as many as a million dead Iraqi's but far too late, he didn't have to go traveling the world trying, and failing, to build support for U.S. military action, but he did and he didn't have to sit at the UN and hold up a vial as proof that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling biological and chemical weapons and state he was giving 'facts facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence' which turned out to not only be nonsense, but nonsense that he knew was nonsense as the State Department’s own office of intelligence and research (INR), told him that some of the evidence he was to present was not correct, but he went ahead and ignored them and presented it anyway.
In the Security Council chamber, he displayed photographs and diagrams to detail Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and at one point brandished a small vial containing a teaspoon of simulated anthrax, warning that Iraq had not accounted for 'tens upon tens upon tens of thousands of teaspoons of the deadly disease.
The United Nations quite rightly decided not to give their blessing and no such weapons were ever found and he did say later that he regretted providing misleading intelligence that led to the US invasion, calling it a 'blot on my record' and that the fact that it turned out to be a hat-full of lies as 'painful', but i guarantee it was not as painful as the decades of death, chaos and violence in Iraq and beyond that resulted from it.
As one Iraqi said 'What does that remorse do for us? A whole country was destroyed, and we continue to pay the price' so i'm not sure what the platitudes are for, he was part of the immoral and dishonest gang that went to such lengths to deceive, cheat and lie to go to war so you don't make out somebody to be a hero when they were anything but just because they died, and Powell was no hero.