"What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence," he said, "I will cite some examples, and these are from human sources."
Here's where Colin tells us about a big find by intelligence officials in Iraq at the home of a nuclear scientist.
"When they searched the home of an Iraqi nuclear scientist," he said, "they uncovered roughly 2,000 pages of documents."
To prove this "fact" Colin pulled out a few visuals. "You see them here being brought out of the home and placed in U.N. hands," he told the audience.
"Some of the material is classified and related to Iraq's nuclear program," he added.
Next, Colin presented a litany of "facts" about Saddam's nuclear threat. "Let me turn now to nuclear weapons," he said.
"We have no indication that Saddam Hussein has ever abandoned his nuclear weapons program," he warned.
"On the contrary," he continued, "we have more than a decade of proof that he remains determined to acquire nuclear weapons."
"To fully appreciate the challenge that we face today," he said, "remember that, in 1991, the inspectors searched Iraq's primary nuclear weapons facilities for the first time."
"And they found nothing to conclude that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program," he added.
"But based on defector information in May of 1991," he advised, "Saddam Hussein's lie was exposed."
The next comment is particularly amusing as Colin inserts the word "truth."
"In truth," he said, "Saddam Hussein had a massive clandestine nuclear weapons program that covered several different techniques to enrich uranium, including electromagnetic isotope separation, gas centrifuge, and gas diffusion."
"Saddam Hussein already possesses two out of the three key components needed to build a nuclear bomb," he said.
"He has a cadre of nuclear scientists with the expertise," he added, "and he has a bomb design."
"Since 1998, his efforts to reconstitute his nuclear program have been focused on acquiring the third and last component," Colin said, "sufficient fissile material to produce a nuclear explosion."
Here's where Colin tells us about a big find by intelligence officials in Iraq at the home of a nuclear scientist.
"When they searched the home of an Iraqi nuclear scientist," he said, "they uncovered roughly 2,000 pages of documents."
To prove this "fact" Colin pulled out a few visuals. "You see them here being brought out of the home and placed in U.N. hands," he told the audience.
Next, Colin presented a litany of "facts" about Saddam's nuclear threat. "Let me turn now to nuclear weapons," he said.
"We have no indication that Saddam Hussein has ever abandoned his nuclear weapons program," he warned.
"On the contrary," he continued, "we have more than a decade of proof that he remains determined to acquire nuclear weapons."
"To fully appreciate the challenge that we face today," he said, "remember that, in 1991, the inspectors searched Iraq's primary nuclear weapons facilities for the first time."
"And they found nothing to conclude that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program," he added.
"But based on defector information in May of 1991," he advised, "Saddam Hussein's lie was exposed."
The next comment is particularly amusing as Colin inserts the word "truth."
"In truth," he said, "Saddam Hussein had a massive clandestine nuclear weapons program that covered several different techniques to enrich uranium, including electromagnetic isotope separation, gas centrifuge, and gas diffusion."
"Saddam Hussein already possesses two out of the three key components needed to build a nuclear bomb," he said.
"He has a cadre of nuclear scientists with the expertise," he added, "and he has a bomb design."
"Since 1998, his efforts to reconstitute his nuclear program have been focused on acquiring the third and last component," Colin said, "sufficient fissile material to produce a nuclear explosion."
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