From President George W. Bush’s September 14, 2002, radio address: “Today Saddam Hussein has the scientists and infrastructure for a nuclear weapons program, and has illicitly sought to purchase the equipment needed to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon. Should his regime acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.”
– Transcript, “President Discusses Growing Danger posed by Saddam Hussein’s Regime,” Accessed on 9/6/2016