It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it. - Hans Blix

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could — with 100 per cent certainty — know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

… there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…

There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.