In the same "60 Minutes" interview, Mr. Bush provided this egregious claim: "The minute we found out they didn't have weapons of mass destruction, I was the first to say so. Scott, all I can do is just tell the truth, tell people exactly what's on my mind, which is what I do."
Really? Is that what happened? Mr. Bush was the first to say so? If that is the case, then why was Secretary of State Colin Powell quoted on March 24, 2001 as saying Saddam Hussein "has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction"? However, on March 16, 2003, with the Iraq War only 4 days away, Mr. Cheney claimed on "Meet the Press" that "We believe [Hussein] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons". As Lord Acton, a famous British historian, stated, "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely".
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