What I Knew Before the Invasion

Sen Bob Graham (D-FL) writes in the Washington Post What I Knew Before the Invasion.

The American people needed to know these reservations, and I requested that an unclassified, public version of the NIE be prepared. On Oct. 4 [2002], Tenet presented a 25-page document titled "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs." It represented an unqualified case that Hussein possessed them, avoided a discussion of whether he had the will to use them and omitted the dissenting opinions contained in the classified version. Its conclusions, such as "If Baghdad acquired sufficient weapons-grade fissile material from abroad, it could make a nuclear weapon within a year," underscored the White House's claim that exactly such material was being provided from Africa to Iraq.