I really liked the slides, but I'll always associate Powell's leadership abilities with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_weapons_laboratory http://en.w

I really liked the slides, but I'll always associate Powell's leadership abilities with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_weapons_laboratory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_weapons_laboratory He's apparently gone on record as admitting "It's a blot. I'm the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world, and [it] will always be a part of my record. It was painful. It's painful now." Yet the damage is done. Did he have people who could speak up at the time with contrary evidence? Did he make himself available to those people?