Quotes by Joseph Wilson

“The Bush White House and its right-wing allies are responding to Cindy Sheehan and the military families vigil in central Texas in the same way that they always respond to bad news ? by unleashing personal attacks and smears against her.”

“If [Bush administration officials] were referring to Niger when they were referring to uranium sales from Africa to Iraq ... that information was erroneous and ... they knew about it well ahead of both the publication of the British white paper and the presidents State of the Union address, ... Meet the Press.”

“I have every confidence that the answer I provided was circulated to the appropriate officials within our government,”

“The question now is how that answer was or was not used by our political leadership.”

“Either the administration has some information that it has not shared with the public, or, yes, they were using the selective use of facts to bolster the decision in a case that had already been made -- a decision that had been made to go to war,”

“I think hes trying to reassure his followers that hes still alive and that hes still rebelling and trying to confront this occupation,”

“Itd be interesting to see if in fact the United States really is closing in on him. I wouldnt be surprised. It looks to me like some of the cells surrounding him and protecting him may be breaking down.”

“Now youve got Saddam in a position where hes either been flushed or hes been forced to go back [underground]. And if hes been flushed, and if hes running around every two hours as they say, then presumably hes just a couple of steps ahead of the coalition forces.”

“It strikes me as either they were flushed from a previous hiding place, or else they were so confident that they really just gave up some basic security.”

“I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraqs nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.”