I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.

From the DOD News Briefing following the fall of Baghdad, April 11, 2003:

You and a few other critics are the only people I've heard use the phrase immediate threat. I didn't, the president didn't. And it's become kind of folklore th…

It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.