Bush and the Pre-War

Some more detail on how well-versed the president was before the war that a) no agencies in his own government believed that Saddam would attack the U.S. unless provoked, and b) there was serious internal debate within the government over whether Saddam’s imported aluminum tubes proved an attempt to reconstitute a nuclear weapons program. Bush subsequently gave speeches warning of Saddam’s nuclear program and of his gathering threat to the U.S.