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1. A lifetime’s reputation was blemished by one slip.
2. But his otherwise clean sheet was blemished in October when he lost a machine gun during firing practice.
3. "Charlie‘s decision to chart the moral course left him with a clear conscience even though his legal record was blemished.
4. His towering place in US history should endure but unfortunately it was blemished by one tragic mistake – the speech he agreed under White House pressure to give in UN Security Council on February 5, 2003 solemnly arguing that Saddam Hussein and his country had defied a Security Council injunction to dismantle the arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.