"deliberate deception"

"Bush and his aides have never explained why the U.S. position was not changed as on-the-ground U.N. findings came in before the invasion."

"The IAEA chief reported this conclusion to the U.N. Security Council on Jan. 27, 2003, and yet on the next day Bush — in a "remarkable" response — delivered a State of the Union address in which he repeated the unfounded claim about aluminum tubes, ElBaradei notes."

""I was aghast at what I was witnessing" ElBaradei writes" and so was I.