3/19/2003

Acting on intelligence that Saddam Hussein and his sons were hiding out at his Dora Farms complex in Iraq on March 19, 2003, President Bush ordered an air strike to deliver bunker-busting bombs on the site. “Saddam, it turned out, was not hit, and when U.S. forces examined the Dora Farms site after the fall of Baghdad, there was no underground bunker and no evidence that Saddam had even been there on March 19. It was a small intelligence failure that reflected a much larger problem of the faulty intelligence that surrounded the war.”

 – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 211