Donald Rumsfeld
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Right.
The president made the decision.
Colin Powell made the presentation.
There was no one in the NSC who disagreed with that.
Well, I would take issue with some of that.
And there was an Al-Qaeda-connected group called Ansar al-Islam up in Kramal that was actually preparing chemicals.
And we found traces of ricin and potassium chlorate there after major combat operations.
And Saddam Hussein was giving $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers.
He'd been on the State Department terrorist list for years.
I'm just trying to help you.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
So it wasn't...they were... You want to know what I did at one point?
Yes.
In the book, I talk about it.
I sat down and prepared a list of all the things that could go wrong.
The parade of horribles.
Exactly.
And one of them was there might not be weapons of mass destruction.
That's right.