Key Words: Colin Powell ‘scrubbed’ U.N. testimony in 2003 of all but 2% to 5% of flawed intelligence on Iraq weapons, longtime ally estimates

Allies and associates of Colin Powell, the four-star Army general who went on to serve as U.S. secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and died Monday of complications from the novel coronavirus–borne disease COVID-19, lamented that Powell obituaries were likely to feature a career low point: Powell’s presentation in 2003 before the United Nations Security Council on the need to invade Iraq.

From the archives (February 2003): Powell makes case for Iraqi war

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