“In [December] 2000 a National Intelligence Estimate on worldwide biological weapons [BW] threats contained this key judgment: ‘Despite a decade-long international effort to disarm Iraq, new information suggests that Baghdad has continued and expanded its offensive BW program by establishing a large scale, redundant, and concealed BW agent production capability. We judge that Iraq maintains the capability to produce previously declared agents and probably is pursuing development of additional bacterial and toxin agents. Moreover, we judge that Iraq has BW delivery systems available that could be used to threaten US and Allied forces in the Persian Gulf region.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Dick Cheney, In My Time, Pages 366-367