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Colin Powell: A great man – and a failure

19 October 2021

8:18 AM

19 October 2021

8:18 AM

My memory of Colin Powell feels personal, even though we were 6000 miles apart at the time. I was in Baghdad, covering the invasion of Iraq for the BBC. Powell was giving the speech of his life at the UN Security Council, accompanied by Powerpoint, trying to convince the world that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

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