White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer was questioned during a press briefing on Iraq on May 7, 2003:
“Q: Well, we went to war, didn’t we, to find these–because we said that these weapons were a direct and imminent threat to the United States? Isn’t that true?
MR. FLEISCHER: Absolutely. One of the reasons that we went to war was because of their possession of weapons of mass destruction. And nothing has changed on that front at all. We said what we said because we meant it.”
– Transcript, “Ari Fleischer Press Briefing,” George W. Bush – White House Archives online, May 7, 2003