He was asked to comment on a new report by Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, which concluded that "the evidence does not point to the existence of large stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons."
"I don't know how he knows," Wolfowitz responded. "I flew over Baghdad. It's a city ... as large as Los Angeles. You look at all those houses and realize that every basement might contain a huge, lethal quantity of anthrax."