centcom commander anthony zinni was there and said he couldn't believe what he was hearing. >> simply stated, there is no doubt that saddam hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. there is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us. >> i had a seat at the stage next to the lectern where he was speaking, and i literally bolted at that. >> with our help, a liberated iraq can be a great nation once again. >> vice president's dick cheney speech is the opening salvo of the bush administration's effort to sell to the american people what white house insiders call "the product". >> thank you very much. >> it was a shock. it was total shock. i couldn't believe the vice president was saying this, and doing work with the cia on iraq wmd, through all the briefs i heard at langley, i never saw one piece of credible evidence that there was an ongoing program. and that's when i began to believe they're getting serious about this. they want to go into iraq. >> joining me now, rachel maddow, narrater of the documentary "hubris: selling the ir