Belief Quote by Laurence Silberman

We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience of the…

— Colin Powell

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

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 information that the intelligence people used was a combination of satellite information, signals intelligence, and human intelligence. We are not sure to what…

— Colin Powell

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

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of…

— Christopher Dodd

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

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

— Donald Rumsfeld

There is an enormous amount of evidence that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, is doing his best to develop more lethal weapons, and…

— Mike Pence

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

— Carl Levin

When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that Saddam Hussein…

— Arundhati Roy