Combination Quote by Colin Powell

We are not sure to what extent Saddam's [Hussein ] own people were conveying an incorrect picture to him. But this body of evidence…

— Colin Powell

In the late 1980s, the United States and Israel believed that they had good intelligence on Iraq, but they missed the extent of Saddam…

— Ronen Bergman

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

— Tony Blair

Every intelligence agency in the world believed that Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction, precursor chemicals. The inspectors, over a period of…

— John Reid

No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually…

— Stephen Hadley

The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had…

— Laurence Silberman

I don't get intelligence off a satellite. Iraqis tell me who the enemy is.

— James Mattis

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel…

— Ken Lucas

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars...…

— Richard Dawkins

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

— Bill Vaughan

The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).

— Laurence Silberman