Aside from the January 2003, State of the Union address which referenced the 16 word phrase that Iraq had sought to buy significant quantities of uranium from Africa, in March 2003, Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz assured Congress that the rebuilding of Iraq would be financed by its own oil revenues, “and relatively soon.”

President Bush, at a March 6, 2003 press conference, held in prime time, said of Saddam Hussein, “He has trained and financed Al Qaeda-type organizations before, Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.”

In an interview with David Frost for the BBC in November 2003, President Bush said “I’m very confident we got good intelligence.”