text: Lots of misconceptions on this subject.  Let me try and clear up a few.\n\nBush ordered the release of these documents against the advice of John Negroponte.  Senators Hoekstra and Roberts, both Republicans, wanted this information released to the public for political reasons to try and help their case that there were WMD in Iraq.  According to David Kay, head weapons inspector, these were documents that were retrieved prior to 1991 and were already known about before W invaded Iraq.\n\nSecond year nuclear physics majors do not have all the information needed to build a nuclear bomb, let alone a regular physics major.  This information was not previously available on the internet, that is an urban myth.\n\nThere is no doubt that Saddam was a future threat, but there is still no evidence that he was an imminent threat.\n\nThese are the facts.