Yahoo! News - Powell Regrets Iraq Weapons Claim for War

" Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday he regrets the Bush administration claimed that Iraq had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in its argument for war, but he believes the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Following a speech to the Atlanta Press Club, Powell defended the bulk of his presentation to the United Nations in February 2003 in which he made the case for war in Iraq.

'The only thing where we got it wrong and where our presentation did not hold up was the actual stockpiles,' Powell said. 'We've seen nothing to suggest that he had actual stockpiles. That was not right.' "

It may be the "only thing where" Powell "got it wrong", but that was the big deal, the big kahuna.

And Powell's regrets, his contrition, is far from complete. When will he publicly apologize to Hans Blix? When will Powell resign?