Accountable Talk?

Condoleezza Rice: "[Iraq has obtained] high quality aluminum tubes that are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs" and "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." -- CNN Late Edition (CNN television broadcast, Sept. 8, 2002).

Vice President Dick Cheney: "I do know with absolutely certainty that he is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon" -- Meet the Press (NBC television broadcast, Sept. 8, 2002).

Donald Rumsfeld: "Imagine a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction." -- Face the Nation (CBS television broadcast, Sept. 8, 2002).

Vice President Dick Cheney: ''I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." (CNN television broadcast, May 2005)

President GW Bush: "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September 11, 2001, and still goes on." May 1, 2003, aboard USS Abraham Lincoln, in front of a huge banner declaring "Mission Accomplished."