9/19/2002

At the UN on September 19, 2002, “Iraq’s foreign minister, Naji Sabri, read a combative letter from Saddam Hussein, insisting that his country had no weapons of mass destruction and attacking the Bush administration for a ‘cyclone of American accusations and fabricated crises against Iraq.’ ”

 – Todd S. Purdum and The New York Times Staff, A Time of Our Choosing, Pages 52-53