Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

We assess that Iraq continues to hide critical (weapons of mass destruction) production equipment and material from U.N. inspectors,

We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.

The invasion of Iraq was not justified because Saddam had already abandoned weapons of mass destruction.

I have seen no evidence of Iraq providing weapons of mass destruction to non-Iraqi terrorist groups.

What would have to be demonstrated, and hasn't been demonstrated, is that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and there is a direct, likely and immediate threat that such weapons would be employed,