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7. Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, testimony of Charles Duelfer, Special Adviser to the Director of Central Intelligence for Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction, October 6, 2004; Charles Duelfer, “Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD” (Duelfer Report), vol. I, September 30, 2004, p. 1 (Regime Strategic Intent section).
8. Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-For-Food Programme, Manipulation of the Oil-For-Food Programme by the Iraqi Regime, October 27, 2005.
9. Doug Wead, “Bush Completes Father’s Unfinished Business,” USA Today, June 15, 2003; “Is Bush Continuing His Dad’s Iraq Policy?” ABC News, February 16, 2001.
10. Hearing of the House Armed Services Committee, “United States Policy Toward Iraq,” testimony of General Richard Myers, September 18, 2002.
11. Jones to Hugh Shelton, “U.S. Military Responses in Iraq,” August 31, 2001; Rumsfeld to Jones, “Iraq,” September 10, 2001.
12. Rumsfeld to Rice et al., “Iraq,” July 27, 2001.
13. Saddam Hussein, conversation with SSA George L. Piro, Baghdad Operations Center, June 11, 2004 (Federal Bureau of Investigation).
14. George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 29, 2002.
15. Tenet, letter to Senator Bob Graham, October 7, 2002; Department of Defense news transcript, “DoD News briefing—Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace,” September 26, 2002.
16. James Woolsey, interviewed by Peter Jennings, “America Under Attack,” ABC News Special Report, September 11, 2001.
17. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq (S. Rep. 108-301), 108th Cong., 2d sess., July 9, 2004, pp. 318–21; Department of State, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, “CHAPTER 6: Terrorist Organizations,” Country Reports on Terrorism 2008, April 30, 2009.
18. Department of State, Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003, April 2004, p. 114.
19. Kevin M. Woods with James Lacey, Iraqi Perspectives Project: Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents, vol. I (redacted), Institute for Defense Analyses, November 2007, p. 18.
20. Kevin M. Woods James with James Lacey, Iraqi Perspectives Project: Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents, vol. I (redacted), Institute for Defense Analyses, November 2007, p. 18; Kevin M. Woods with Michael R. Pease, Mark E. Stout, Williamson Murray, and James G. Lacey, Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership (Joint Center for Operational Analysis, U.S. Joint Forces Command, March 2006), p. 54.
21. OSD Policy, “Sovereignty and Anticipatory Self-Defense,” August 24, 2002.
22. OSD Policy, “Sovereignty and Anticipatory Self-Defense,” August 24, 2002.
23. Rumsfeld, “Saddam Hussein,” September 21, 2001.
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1. General Richard B. Myers, USAF (Ret.), with Malcolm McConnell, Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security (New York: Th reshold Editions, 2009), p. 215.
2. Lieutenant General William G. Pagonis with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992), pp. 157–58; George C. Wilson, “The Logistics Behind a War on Iraq,” National Journal, vol. 34, issue 47/48, November 23, 2002.
3. Rumsfeld, “Assumptions,” October 18, 2002.
4. “Iraq Tested Missile to Carry A-Bomb, a U.N. Report Says,” New York Times, October 5, 1991.
5. Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, intelligence side letter to Tenet, March 18, 1999, p. 3.
6. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, August 28, 2002.
7. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, August 28, 2002.
8. Central Intelligence Agency, “Key Judgments,” National Intelligence Estimate: Iraq’s Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction, October 2002.
9. James Graffand Bruce Crumley, “France Is Not a Pacifist Country,” Time, February 16, 2003.
10. Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Great Terror,” The New Yorker, March