Political Quotes

“I would just concur with the gentleman that that is a very interesting Newsweek article. I read it a few hours ago. It is very disturbing because it does lay out how under the Vice President's leadership, this Office of Special Plans collected their own information and drew their own conclusions, and then they use those conclusions to encourage the kind of action that occurred. Now, the fact is that the President has finally admitted quite publicly, in spite of the Vice President's statement to the contrary, that there is no evidence that Iraq or Saddam Hussein was responsible for the attack upon our Nation on September 11, 2001. That is a very critical conclusion, I think, for us to have come to. Because given that and given the fact that we had weapons inspectors in Iraq and they were asking for more time, would not you think that if there is uncertainty about exactly what Saddam Hussein has or may have, that there is no evidence that he was involved in the direct attack upon our country, that we would have approached this situation a little more cautiously, a little more thoughtfully, that we would have expended the time that the inspectors were asking for. If we had done that, it may have been possible. It may have been possible.”