From the December 2, 1999, Manchester, New Hampshire, debate involving the GOP Presidential Candidates:
MR. HUME: Governor Bush, Saddam Hussein is still there. What would you do about that, if anything, that is different from what President Clinton has done?
GOV. BUSH: I wouldn’t ease the sanctions, and I wouldn’t try to negotiate with him. I’d make darn sure that he lived up to the agreements that he signed back in the early ’90s. I’d be helping the opposition groups. And if I found in any way, shape or form that he was developing weapons of mass destruction, I’d take ’em out. I’m surprised he’s still there. I think a lot of other people are as well.
MR. HUME: Take him out?
GOV. BUSH: To out the weapons of mass destruction.”
– Special to The New York Times, “Text From New Hampshire Debate Involving G.O.P. Presidential Candidates,” The New York Times, Dec. 3, 1999