In his March 13 National Press Club speech, Howard said: "I would have to accept that if Iraq had genuinely disarmed, I couldn't justify on its own a military invasion of Iraq to change the regime. I've never advocated that."
n a May 28 Washington Post interview, Wolfowitz said: "I can't recall many intelligent assessments that have been as unanimous as the judgment about Iraqi chemical and biological weapons."

The Christian Science Monitor has admitted that a set of documents upon which it based its story on were "almost certainly" fake.