A administração norteamericana e a guerra no Iraque The New York Times, 6 de Julho: artigo "What I Didn't Find in Africa" de Joseph C. Wilson, ex-embaixador dos Estados Unidos enviado no início de 2002 pela CIA a África, para verificar se o Iraque ali teria ou não adquirido urânio para fabricar armas nucleares:

"Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq? Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."

"The White House acknowledged for the first time today that President Bush was relying on incomplete and perhaps inaccurate information from American intelligence agencies when he declared, in his State of the Union speech, that Saddam Hussein had tried to purchase uranium from Africa. The White House statement appeared to undercut one of the key pieces of evidence that President Bush and his aides had cited to back their claims made prior to launching an attack against Iraq in March that Mr. Hussein was "reconstituting" his nuclear weapons program."