At the House Foreign Affairs Committee International Relations Budget Full committee hearing on the “International Relations Budget for FY2009,” Representative Robert Wexler asks Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice if it was true that she had intelligence that cast doubt that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Rice says that it is not true, the views of the United Nations showed that Iraq must have been hiding something, and the only disagreement was on whether or not they had reconstituted their nuclear weapons program, although many elements, including the CIA, believed they were in the process of doing so. She says she takes her integrity very seriously and that she did not at any time make a statement that she knew to be false, or that she thought to be false, in order to pump up anything. Nobody, she says, wants to go to war. (1:16)

 

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At the House Foreign Affairs Committee International Relations Budget Full committee hearing on the “International Relations Budget for FY2009,” In response to Representative Robert Wexler, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that at no time did she intend to, nor believe that she did, put forth false information. Wexler asks her if she had intelligence information that was contrary to the intelligence information that was reported about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. He says that there were contrary reports, and Rice says that she chose to use the collective wisdom of the intelligence community, and that it showed in the Key Judgments in 2002 that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted his biological weapons program, reconstituted his chemical weapons program, and might do so with his nuclear weapons program if he got foreign assistance. She says she will be the first to say that it was not right. (1:27)

 

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At the House Foreign Affairs Committee International Relations Budget Full Committee hearing on the “International Relations Budget for FY2009,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that if America does not stand for freedom and liberty, and the rights of the oppressed, and human rights, then nobody will. (:33)

 

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