Political Quotes

“I get a little nervous talking about saying we got it wrong, because I have had the opportunity, having served on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence now for 3 years, to have met a lot of our men and women involved in this process. The first thing we have to recognize is they got a very important thing right, Saddam was a threat. It is not like we got into Iraq and it is like, wow, there is nothing here; he was not doing anything, he was just trying to build the country for his people. He was focused on delivering them quality healthcare, education. You guys got it all wrong. That is not the Saddam Hussein we see and this is not the Saddam Hussein that his own people saw. They got it right, that this guy had every intent of restarting a weapons of mass destruction program, and we missed that he changed his strategy, from stockpiling to producing these things on demand. So we got some of those things wrong. But overall, the strategic analysis, because these men and women we have in our Intelligence Community, this is an art, and Saddam Hussein was a master at deceit, and we did not necessarily give our intel folks everything they needed to figure it out.”