How Bush, Others Described Iraq Threat (vote this one up)

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How Bush, Others Described Iraq Threat
By The Associated Press

Prewar statements by President Bush and other administration officials on the urgency of stopping Saddam Hussein:

"What we must not do in the face of a mortal threat is give in to wishful thinking or to willful blindness." — Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), Aug. 29, 2002, speaking to veterans of the Korean War in San Antonio, Texas.
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"The history, the logic, and the facts lead to one conclusion: Saddam Hussein's regime is a grave and gathering danger. To suggest otherwise is to hope against the evidence." — Bush, Sept. 12, 2002, speaking at the United Nations (news - web sites).
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"He's a threat that we must deal with as quickly as possible." — Bush, Sept. 13, 2002, remarks to press.
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"We do know that he (Saddam) has been actively and persistently pursuing nuclear weapons for more than 20 years. But we should be just as concerned about the immediate threat from biological weapons." — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Sept. 18, 2002, before House Armed Services Committee.
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"There are a number of terrorist states pursuing weapons of mass destruction ... but no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people than the regime of Saddam Hussein and Iraq (news - web sites)." — Rumsfeld, Sept. 19, 2002, Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites).
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