“In October [6] 2004, Charles Duelfer, who succeeded [David] Kay as head of ISG [Iraq Survey Group], produced the group’s final findings. There was no such arsenal [of WMD], the weapons inspector concluded in a one-thousand-page report. Saddam had indeed eliminated his weapons in the early 1990s, but had tried to preserve the intellectual and physical ability to restart the weapons programs at some point. Duelfer also said that he had found no evidence of an effort to buy uranium from other countries. And he testified to the Senate that, as some analysts had suspected, the aluminum tubes Iraq was buying, which the Bush administration had made central to the argument that Iraq was developing a nuclear capability, were indeed for conventional military rockets.”
– Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco, Pages 376-377