"He is fallible, but he is noble. He has integrity," she says of the late congressman. "If there are any false steps, it's a mistake, he then owns up to those." The cossa cortes was an incantation at a civilian religious service where you say, please god, don't pile on me", writes CNN anchor Jake Tapper. 'This whole thing is a civic religion'
In this News Brief, we recap the recap of Powell's life, from the handwringing over his Iraq War UN speech to the erasure of his role in covering up My Lai massacre to training rightwing death squads in Central America and the central importance of "Good Intentions" when venerating our beloved, bipartisan war-makers.