Humble nations admit when they are wrong or when they mislead people to foment a war.
The Washington Post reports that: “Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday that what he had called “the most dramatic” element of his Feb. 5, 2003, speech to the United Nations was “inaccurate and discredited.” The presentation, considered a key in convincing allies and the American people that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, claimed the existence of mobile biological-weapons laboratories. “When I made that presentation in February 2003, it was based on the best information that the Central Intelligence Agency made available to me,” Powell said yesterday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and, in some cases, deliberately misleading. And for that, I am disappointed, and I regret it,” he said. A CIA spokesman declined comment.”