The Downing Street Memo, a July 23, 2002, report from British intelligence, claimed Iraq had banned weapons and sought ‘significant quantities of uranium from Africa.’ “The CIA had warned the British against those claims, but [President] Bush would eventually adopt both of them. ‘According to the British government, the Iraqi regime could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as forty-five minutes after the order were given,’ he said in the Rose Garden on September 26 [2002], despite the skepticism of his own CIA.”
– Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 221