Karl
Santa Rosa, CA

“I have also determined that the use of armed force against Iraq is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. ”

“We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories.”

“..there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”

“Our intelligence sources tell us that he (Saddam) has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.”

“The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”

“We know he’s been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.”

“We gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in.”

“The Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons.”

“We’ve learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases”

“We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. ”

“We have seen intelligence over many months that they have chemical and biological weapons, and that they have dispersed them and that they’re weaponized and that, in one case at least, the command and control arrangements have been established.”

“We know where [Iraq's WMD] are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat.”

Those who have been out of political power- the Democrats- have lied about the war (re: Rockefeller and the final phase II Senate Select Committee on Intell Report). The Iraqi Perspectives Project examining Harmony Database documents confirms Saddam’s ties to the al-Qaeda network and affiliates- ties that were understated, not overstated, by the Administration. President Bush never said Saddam helped to orchestrate 9/11. Yet we constantly here the strawman, “Saddam didn’t have anything to do with 9/11″ and complaints about Bush mentioning 9/11 in speeches, juxtapositioned with statements on Iraq. Bush-haters have never understood the overall war, which was about more than simply going after a single terrorist organization.

“Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.”
-President Bush in an address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, United States Capitol, Washington D.C., September 20, 2001.