has made repeated covert attempts to acquire high-specification aluminum tubes from 11 different countries, even after inspections resumed.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

High quality aluminum tubes that are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs. *** We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

They find all kinds of excuses, a thousand excuses -- 'There are spies on this team. We don't want this. When are sanctions going to be relieved and removed?' The issue is Iraqi noncompliance, and we should not allow them to move us off that issue.

you can't find actual germs on them.

They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it turned out to be not exactly as they had anticipated.