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Nov 2024
36m 11s

Colin Powell: Lessons from a Tragically ...

Jim Sebenius
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Sadly, Colin Powell is best remembered in many quarters for deploying his immense personal prestige in giving what became his infamous speech at the United Nations. This speech purported to reveal evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, thereby building support for the disastrous U.S. invasion of that country.  Powell did not want to give this sp ... Show More
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