On July 17, 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair “addressed a joint session of Congress and left open the possibility that no weapons of mass destruction would be located [in Iraq]. ‘Let us say one thing: if we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that is at least responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering,’ Blair said. ‘That is something I am confident history will forgive.’ …When a journalist pointed out that Blair had ‘opened the door to the possibility that you may be proved wrong about the threat from Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction,’ Bush shot back, ‘We won’t be proven wrong.’ He then added, ‘I believe that we will find the truth. And the truth is, he was developing a program for weapons of mass destruction. …We will bring the weapons, and of, of course –we will bring the information forward on the weapons when they find them. And that will end up–end all this speculation. …And that’s what’s going to happen.’ ”
– Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 293