President George W. Bush’s remarks on the Saddam’s Regime: “By supporting terrorist groups, repressing its own people and pursuing weapons of mass destruction in defiance of a decade of U.N. resolutions, Saddam Hussein’s regime has proven itself a grave and gathering danger. To suggest otherwise is to hope against the evidence. To assume this regime’s good faith is to bet the lives of millions and the peace of the world in a reckless gamble. And this is a risk we must not take.”
– Transcript, “President Discusses Growing Danger posed by Saddam Hussein’s Regime,” George W. Bush – White House Archives online, Accessed on 7/12/2016