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-- George W. Bush; 10/27/04A person who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not the kind of person that you want as Commander and Chief
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2003_09/Nuclearclaims.aspVice President Dick Cheney stated three days before U.S.-led coalition forces invaded Iraq this past March that Iraq “has reconstituted nuclear weapons.
The Bush administration claimed that Iraq was attempting to acquire uranium from Niger.
The October NIE claimed that Iraq was attempting to obtain aluminum tubes and magnets for use in a gas centrifuge-based uranium-enrichment program.
The administration claimed that Hussein was meeting with top nuclear weapons experts and that Iraq maintained the scientific know-how to produce nuclear weapons.
Bush said October 7 that Iraq was reconstructing buildings at sites where its nuclear weapons facilities had previously been located.