An interview with Colin Powell by Barbara Walters will air tonight on ABC, and the New York Times has some excerpts today.
The former secretary of state, Colin L. Powell, says in a television interview to be broadcast Friday that his 2003 speech to the United Nations, in which he gave a detailed description of Iraqi weapons programs that turned out not to exist, was "painful" for him personally and would be a permanent "blot" on his record.
While Powell laments how painful it is to have been the one who sat in the UN and made statements about Iraq that were false, I'm not buying his act that he was "devastated" about being misled by intelligence agents who didn't inform him that the information was unreliable.
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