On March 11, 2003, at a convention for the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Washington, D.C., former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said: “U.N. weapons inspectors have been thwarted at every turn. They have been forced to play a game of hide and seek in a country the size of the state of California, chasing after mobile biological labs that were designed to be hidden, and seeking weapons hidden in chicken farms and garages. The inspectors have been subjected to intimidation. And perhaps most important, they have been denied full and free access to Iraqi scientists, who know where the weapons are, but who have been threatened with death and worse, if they cooperate with the inspectors.”
– Paul Wolfowitz, Transcript of Paul Wolfowitz’ Washington, D.C., Speech to War Veterans, CNN, March 11, 2003