President George W. Bush stated: “And if Iraq regimes continues to defy us, and the world, we will move deliberately, yet decisively, to hold Iraq to account. We owe this to our children. We must anticipate. Somebody said, well, you know, they don’t have a nuclear weapon. I said, well, the most dangerous thing — and we know they’re trying to get one — the most dangerous thing would be to find out they had a nuclear weapon after they developed one.”
– Transcript, “President Stresses Budget Discipline and Fiscal Restraint,” George W. Bush – White House Archives online, Accessed on 7/12/2016