"No one told us what to say or how to say it."

"No one told us what to say or how to say it."
CIA Director George Tenet
Saying an "objective assessment" on the presence of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq was presented to U.S. policy makers.
"Knowing what I knew then and knowing what I know today, America did the right thing in Iraq."
President Bush
Defending the decision to take down Saddam Hussein.
"The question now is: What did (Bush) know at the time?"
Wesley Clark
Democratic presidential candidate, wondering if the White House was aware that there apparently were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when the United States went to war.