Pelosi: Senate Reports Confirm Administration Justification for Iraq War Built on Deception

"The reports issued today by a bipartisan majority of the Senate Intelligence Committee are additional confirmation of the fact that the Bush Administration's justification for invading Iraq was built on false pretenses, misrepresentations, and deception.

"The Administration relied on more than bad intelligence in making the case for war; it promoted as true the claim that there was a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda when the Administration knew that claim was unsupported by intelligence.

"Six years, tens of thousands of deaths -- including more than 4,000 brave U.S. troops -- and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the American people continue to pay a heavy price for the Administration's falsely conceived and poorly planned war of choice in Iraq."