"I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks, or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that."
--Donald Rumsfeld, November 14, 2002
"We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more."
--Secretary of State Colin Powell, to UN Security Council, 2/5/2003
"Ladies and Gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts."
--Colin Powell, same speech
"He presented not opinions, not conjecture, but facts."
--Donald Rumsfeld, 2/8/2003, regarding Powell's UN speech
"It's a blot. I'm the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world, and [it] will always be a part of my record. It was painful. It's painful now."
--Colin Powell, regarding his lies to the UN, 9/8/2005