Let's examine the pertinent part of SOTU 03:

"Almost three months ago, the United Nations Security Council gave Saddam Hussein his final chance to disarm. He has shown instead utter contempt for the United Nations, and for the opinion of the world. The 108 U.N. inspectors were sent to conduct -- were not sent to conduct a scavenger hunt for hidden materials across a country the size of California. The job of the inspectors is to verify that Iraq's regime is disarming. It is up to Iraq to show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons, lay those weapons out for the world to see, and destroy them as directed. Nothing like this has happened."

This statement is loaded. It states Iraq HAD "banned weapons" and was refusing to disarm. The inspectors were NOT there to see if Iraq was in the process of disarming but that Iraq had disarmed completely as it had reported in 1995. The answer appears to have been yes. It is disingenuous of Bush to talk about Iraq not complying with inspectors when he would cut their inspections off and order an invasion two months later specifically to avoid hearing the UN's conclusion that Iraq had not rearmed.

"The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax -- enough doses to kill several million people. He hasn't accounted for that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it."

The United Nations concluded no such thing. Anyone with proof to the contrary please produce it.

"The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin -- enough to subject millions of people to death by respiratory failure. He hadn't accounted for that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it."

The United Nations concluded no such thing. Anyone with proof to the contrary please produce it.

"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In such quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands. He's not accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them."

Which intelligence officials estimated this and what did they base it on? Nothing like has turned up in any way, shape or form.

"U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently turned up 16 of them -- despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their existence. Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these prohibited munitions. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed them."

Which US intelligence indicated this and what was it based on? Nothing like has turned up in any way, shape or form. So it makes sense that Saddam gave no indication he's destroyed them--he would have had to lie to do so.

"From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs."

A lie. No such mobile labs were ever found. The equipment identified as mobile labs were merely filling stations for weather balloons. This info came from one of these three "defectors"--Curveball--who has since been thoroughly discredited and who was not believed by anyone other than the Bush administration. None of these three defectors were credible. Anyone with evidence to the contrary, please produce it.

"These are designed to produce germ warfare agents, and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors. Saddam Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed them.<<

Once again, he cannot produce such evidence without lying because he definitely never had any such mobile labs. He never disclosed them for the same reason. Anyone with evidence to the contrary, please produce it.

"The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb."

A lie. Hans Blix's own notes and memos to the UN secretary-general and to the IAEA in 1997 prove unequivocally that nobody other than the Bush administration and their blind loyalists believed that Iraq had a viable nuclear program in the 1990s.

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

The infamous 16 words--a lie is so blatant that even the normally compliant George Tenet of the CIA tried to persuade Bush not to include that statement in SOTU and Bush ignored him. We now know that the British govt learned no such thing and that the rumors did not even originate with Britain. They originated in Italy when a guy named Rocco Martino offered to sell Nigerian documents composed in French to reporter Elizabeth Burba which alleged that Iraq was attempting to procure an enormous amount of uranium secretly. Burba turned the documents over to the CIA chief in Rome who filed them through proper channels but nobody put any stock in it. When a report of these documents (now called "the Italian Letters") was included in an NIE that went to the White House, officials there liked it and decided to use it as propaganda to convince the world of the need to invade Iraq despite the fact that no one believed it for the simple fact that Iraq could not possibly keep such a procurement secret and no intelligence agency in the world had ever heard of this attempt by Iraq. It was a lie.

Bush's address to the American people was composed entirely of lies with regard to Iraq.