What Bush Was Told About Iraq

It is being reported that two highly classified intelligence reports were delivered directly to President Bush before the Iraq war, and that they cast grave doubt on many of the key public assertions made not only by President Bush, but also Vice President Cheney, Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld, and other administration officials as justifications for invading Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein, according to records and knowledgeable sources...

The second classified report, delivered to Bush in early January 2003, was also a summary of a National Intelligence Estimate, this one focusing on whether Saddam would launch an unprovoked attack on the United States, either directly, or indirectly by working with terrorists....

The report stated that U.S. intelligence agencies unanimously agreed that it was unlikely that Saddam would try to attack the United States -- except if "ongoing military operations risked the imminent demise of his regime" or if he intended to "extract revenge" for such an assault, according to records and sources

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