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Over the last few days, we've been bringing you some of our favorite stories that helped

define our year. Today, I'm going to bring you a story from back in October. This is when

General Colin Powell had just died, and it was a month after the 20th anniversary of the

9-11 terrorist attack. Back then, I sat down with Slate's Fred Kaplan to talk about Powell's

complicated legacy and figure out how we should remember him today.

Colin Powell knew how you were going to remember him. Thank you, Mr. President. Frozen in

time at the United Nations on February 5, 2003. I cannot tell you everything that we know,

but what I can share with you when combined with what all of us have learned over the

years is deeply troubling. This is when he laid out the case for the Iraq War. The case

that Saddam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction. My colleagues, every statement

I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. He spoke for over an hour that day.

These are not assertions. What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid

intelligence. And many of the things he said were wrong.

Here is another way to remember him. Slate's Fred Kaplan covered the general when he was

national security adviser under Reagan, and when he became chairman of the Joint Chiefs

of Staff a few years after that. And again, when he was appointed Secretary of State, that's

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