On September 18, 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld testified before the House Armed Services Committee that, “No living dictator has shown the murderous combination of intent and capability–of aggression against his neighbors; oppression of his own people; genocide; support of terrorism; pursuit of weapons of mass destruction; the use of weapons of mass destruction; and the most threatening hostility to its neighbors and to the United States, than Saddam Hussein and his regime.”
– Donald H. Rumsfeld, Prepared Testimony of U.S. Secretary of Defense before House and Senate Armed Services Committees, U.S. Department of Defense, Sep. 18, 2002