The administration took care of a source of instability in Iraq. Envision a world in which Saddam Hussein was rushing for a nuclear weapon to compete against Iran. My decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the correct decision in my judgment. We didn't find the weapons we thought we would find or the weapons everybody thought he had. But he was a significant source of instability.
George W. BushI have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.
George W. BushIraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.
George W. Bush