5/29/2003

On May 29, 2003, there was a “front page article in The Washington Post by Walter Pincus and Karen DeYoung that cited [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s prewar assertions about Iraq’s WMDs as a primary example of [Bush] administration statements that now looked wrong. (In an interview for the Post article, [Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul] Wolfowitz denied there had been any ‘oversell’ of the WMD threat, but he acknowledged that there ‘had been a tendency to emphasize the WMD issue.)’ ”

 – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Pages 229-230