I was misled. I was given exaggerated information. I was given misleading information. The President and all of his top advisors in September and October of 2002 stated with complete certainty that Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons, had biological weapons of mass destruction, was reconstituting a nuclear weapons program, was going to give these weapons to al Qaeda.
Addressing concerns about intelligence used to justify the Iraq War.
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