The body of evidence proving George Bush deliberately lied to Congress and the American people about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is overwhelming.

According to Ron Suskind's new book The Way of the World, Iraq's intelligence chief Tahir Jalil Habbush met with intelligence agents from Britain's MI6 in Jordan in the run up to war. Habbush told MI6 that Iraq possessed no WMD or WMD programs. Richard Dearlove, head of MI6, flew to Washington in late January 2003 to deliver this information directly to George Tenet. Soon afterward Tenet briefed the highest levels of the Bush administration on Dearlove's report, including President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Bush responded: "Why don't they ask him to give us something we can use to help make our case?"

CBS reported a similar story about Naji Sabri Ahmad Al-Hadithi, Iraq's foreign minister. Newsweek reported a similar story about Hussein Kamel Hassan al-Majid, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law and head of the WMD program in 1991 when all WMD's were destroyed.

Iraq's lack of WMD's was confirmed by the CIA, the IAEA, UNMOVIC, the Russian government, and the French government.

The Senate and House Intelligence Committees have never held hearings on all the well-placed sources who reported Iraq had no WMD's. To honor the U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians who have died for WMD's that did not exist, we urge immediate hearings.