“The ‘salient issue [in Iraq] was not whether Saddam had stockpiles of WMD but whether he could produce them and place them in the hands of terrorists,’ wrote [former Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee Chairman Richard] Perle in January [21] 2009. ‘The [Bush] administration’s appalling inability to explain that this is what it was thinking and doing allowed the unearthing of stockpiles to become the test of whether it had correctly assessed the risk that Saddam might provide WMD to terrorists.’ ”
– Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Pages 60-61