In a speech at the Cincinnati Museum Center (Ohio) on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. …Saddam would be in a position to blackmail anyone who opposes his aggression. He would be in a position to dominate the Middle East. He would be in a position to threaten America. And Saddam Hussein would be in a position to pass nuclear technology to terrorists.’ ”
– Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 56