On August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said in an address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Nashville, Tennessee: ” ‘Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has the weapons of mass destruction [and] there is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us…The risks of inaction are far greater than the risk of action.’ ”
– Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 164