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.

What you will see.

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.

He's an out of 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.

You met him in person alone.

I mean, he just seemed kind of like a hip guy.

Slates Fred Kaplan covered the general when he was National Security Advisor 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 when Powell gave that

fateful testimony at the UN.

I've met a lot of four-star generals in my time, and he was probably the most informal

of them.

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