To close his speech urging the “World to Rise to this Moment,” President George W. Bush said: “Saddam Hussein has made Iraq into a prison, a poison factory, and a torture chamber for patriots and dissidents. Saddam Hussein has the motive and the means and the recklessness and the hatred to threaten the American people. Saddam Hussein will be stopped.”
– Transcript, “President Bush: ‘World Can Rise to This Moment,'” George W. Bush – White House Archives online, Accessed on 7/14/2016