ABOUT SADDAM HUSSEIN

 About the link between Iraq developing weapons of terror, and the wider war on terror. :: 021007

 After 11 years during which we have tried containment, sanctions, inspections, even selected military action, the end result is that Saddam Hussein still has chemical and biological weapons, and is increasing his capabilities to make more. :: 021007

 al Qaeda terrorists escaped from Afghanistan and are known to be in Iraq. :: 020912

 Alliances with terrorists could allow the Iraqi regime to attack America without leaving any fingerprints. :: 021007

 Almost three months ago, the United Nations Security Council gave Saddam Hussein his final chance to disarm. :: 030128

 America is a friend to the people of Iraq. :: 021007

 Among those requirements, the Iraqi regime must reveal and destroy, under U.N. supervision, all existing weapons of mass destruction. :: 021007

 an al Qaeda operative was sent to Iraq several times in the late 1990s for help in acquiring poisons and gases. :: 030208r

 An Iraqi regime faced with its own demise may attempt cruel and desperate measures. :: 021007

 and in the last year alone, the Iraqi military has fired upon American and British pilots more than 750 times. :: 021007

 As a former chief weapons inspector for the U.N. has said, "The fundamental problem with Iraq remains the nature of the regime itself: Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction. :: 021007

 as we and our coalition partners are doing in Afghanistan, we will bring to the Iraqi people food and medicines and supplies and freedom. :: 030128

 As we meet today, it's been almost four years since the last U.N. inspectors set foot in Iraq, four years for the Iraqi regime to plan, and to build, and to test behind the cloak of secrecy. :: 020912

 Before being barred from Iraq in 1998, the International Atomic Energy Agency dismantled extensive nuclear weapons-related facilities, including three uranium-enrichment sites. :: 021007

 Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. :: 030128

 Before the Gulf War, the best intelligence indicated that Iraq was eight to 10 years away from developing a nuclear weapon; after the war, international inspectors learned that the regime had been much closer. :: 021007

 By breaking every pledge -- by his deceptions, and by his cruelties -- Saddam Hussein has made the case against himself. :: 020912

 By its past and present actions, by its technological capabilities, by the merciless nature of its regime, Iraq is unique. :: 021007

 By refusing to comply with his own agreements, he bears full guilt for the hunger and misery of innocent Iraqi citizens. :: 020912

 By taking these steps, and only by taking these steps, the Iraqi regime has an opportunity to avoid conflict. :: 021007

 Congress will also be sending a message to the dictator in Iraq: that his only choice is full compliance -- and the time remaining for that choice is limited. :: 021007

 Eleven years ago, as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi regime was required to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, to cease all development of such weapons and to stop all support for terrorist groups. :: 021007

 Events can turn in one of two ways: If we fail to act in the face of danger, the people of Iraq will continue to live in brutal submission. :: 020912

 Every chemical and biological weapon that Iraq has or makes is a direct violation of the truce that ended the Persian Gulf War in 1991. :: 021007

 Every nation actually committed to peace must block the shipment of Iranian supplies to these groups, and oppose regimes that promote terror, like Iraq. :: 020624

 Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda. :: 030128

 finally, one final point for the world to hear: Saddam Hussein has defied the United Nations 16 times. :: 020914

 First, some ask why Iraq is different from other countries or regimes that also have terrible weapons. :: 021007

 Firsthand witnesses have informed us that Iraq has at least seven mobile factories for the production of biological agents -- equipment mounted on trucks and rails to evade discovery. :: 030208r

 Freed from the weight of oppression, Iraq's people will be able to share in the progress and prosperity of our time. :: 021007

 From 1991 to 1995, the Iraqi regime said it had no biological weapons. :: 020912

 From intelligence sources, we know, for instance, that thousands of Iraqi security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from the U. N. inspectors, sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors themselves. :: 030128

 From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs. :: 030128

 Generation X was able to watch technology right in front of their TV screens -- you know, burrow into concrete bunkers in Iraq and blow them up. :: 011000

 Had Saddam Hussein been appeased instead of stopped, he would have endangered the peace and stability of the world. :: 020912

 He blames the suffering of Iraq's people on the United Nations, even as he uses his oil wealth to build lavish palaces for himself, and to buy arms for his country. :: 020912

 He has gassed many Iranians, and 40 Iraqi villages. :: 020912

 he lives of Iraqi citizens would improve dramatically if Saddam Hussein were no longer in power, just as the lives of Afghanistan's citizens improved after the Taliban. :: 021007

 His regime once ordered the killing of every person between the ages of 15 and 70 in certain Kurdish villages in northern Iraq. :: 020912

 I am not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein. :: 021007

 I will first remind the United Nations that for 11 long years, Saddam Hussein has side-stepped, crawfished, wheedled out of any agreement he had made not to harbor -- not to develop weapons of mass destruction, agreements he's made to treat the people within his country with respect. :: 020904

 If all these steps are taken, it will signal a new openness and accountability in Iraq. :: 020912

 If Iraq's regime defies us again, the world must move deliberately, decisively to hold Iraq to account. :: 020912

 If military action is necessary, the United States and our allies will help the Iraqi people rebuild their economy, and create the institutions of liberty in a unified Iraq at peace with its neighbors. :: 021007

 If Saddam Hussein orders such measures, his generals would be well advised to refuse those orders. :: 021007

 If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly-enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. :: 021007

 If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will cease persecution of its civilian population, including Shi'a, Sunnis, Kurds, Turkomans, and others, again as required by Security Council resolutions. :: 020912

 If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will immediately and unconditionally forswear, disclose, and remove or destroy all weapons of mass destruction, long-range missiles, and all related material. :: 020912

 If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will immediately end all illicit trade outside the oil-for-food program. :: 020912

 If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will immediately end all support for terrorism and act to suppress it, as all states are required to do by U.N. Security Council resolutions. :: 020912

 If the Iraqi regime wishes peace, it will release or account for all Gulf War personnel whose fate is still unknown. :: 020912

 If we know Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today -- and we do -- does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger and develops even more dangerous weapons? :: 021007

 Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans, this time armed by Saddam Hussein. :: 030128

 In 1990, after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the world imposed economic sanctions on Iraq. :: 020912

 In 1991, Iraq promised U.N. inspectors immediate and unrestricted access to verify Iraq's commitment to rid itself of weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles. :: 020912

 In 1991, Security Council Resolution 688 demanded that the Iraqi regime cease at once the repression of its own people, including the systematic repression of minorities -- which the Council said, threatened international peace and security in the region. :: 020912

 In 1991, the Iraqi regime agreed to destroy and stop developing all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles, and to prove to the world it has done so by complying with rigorous inspections. :: 020912

 In 1991, the U.N. Security Council, through Resolution 687, demanded that Iraq renounce all involvement with terrorism, and permit no terrorist organizations to operate in Iraq. :: 020912

 In 1991, the U.N. Security Council, through Resolutions 686 and 687, demanded that Iraq return all prisoners from Kuwait and other lands. :: 020912

 In 1993, Iraq attempted to assassinate the Emir of Kuwait and a former American President. :: 020912

 in 1995, after four years of deception, Iraq finally admitted it had a crash nuclear weapons program prior to the Gulf War. :: 020912

 In 1995, after several years of deceit by the Iraqi regime, the head of Iraq's military industries defected. :: 021007

 In addition to declaring and destroying all of its weapons of mass destruction, Iraq must end its support for terrorism. :: 021007

 In my view, it is the riskiest of all options -- because the longer we wait, the stronger and bolder Saddam Hussein will become. :: 021007

 In time, Iraq was allowed to use oil revenues to buy food. :: 020912

 In violation of Security Council Resolution 1373, Iraq continues to shelter and support terrorist organizations that direct violence against Iran, Israel, and Western governments. :: 020912

 Inspectors recently turned up 16 of them, despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their existence. :: 030128

 Intelligence sources indicate that Saddam Hussein has ordered that scientists who cooperate with U. N. inspectors in disarming Iraq will be killed, along with their families. :: 030128

 International human rights groups have catalogued other methods used in the torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and rape. :: 030128

 Iraq's government openly praised the attacks of September the 11th. :: 020912

 Iraq's regime agreed. It broke its promise. :: 020912

 Iraq's regime agreed. It broke this promise. :: 020912

 Iraq's state-controlled media has reported numerous meetings between Saddam Hussein and his nuclear scientists, leaving little doubt about his continued appetite for these weapons. :: 020912

 Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are controlled by a murderous tyrant, who has already used chemical weapons to kill thousands of people. :: 021007

 Iraq also possesses a force of Scud-type missiles with ranges beyond the 150 kilometers permitted by the U.N. :: 020912

 Iraq broke this promise, spending seven years deceiving, evading, and harassing U.N. inspectors before ceasing cooperation entirely. :: 020912

 Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. :: 020129

 Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists. :: 021007

 Iraq employs capable nuclear scientists and technicians. :: 020912

 Iraq has also provided al Qaeda with chemical and biological weapons training. :: 030208r

 Iraq has also provided safe haven to Abu Abbas, who was responsible for seizing the Achille Lauro and killing an American passenger. :: 021007

 Iraq has answered a decade of U.N. demands with a decade of defiance. :: 020912

 Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. :: 021007

 Iraq has broken every aspect of this fundamental pledge. :: 020912

 Iraq has made several attempts to buy high-strength aluminum tubes used to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon. :: 020912

 Iraq has sent bomb-making and document forgery experts to work with al Qaeda. :: 030208r

 Iraq is a land rich in culture, resources, and talent. :: 021007

 Iraq is blocking U-2 surveillance flights requested by the United Nations. :: 030128

 Iraq possesses ballistic missiles with a likely range of hundreds of miles -- far enough to strike Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, and other nations -- in a region where more than 135,000 American civilians and service members live and work. :: 021007

 Iraqi dissidents abroad are targeted for murder. :: 020912

 Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as the scientists inspectors are supposed to interview. :: 030128

 Iraqi officials accompany the inspectors in order to intimidate witnesses. :: 030128

 Iraqi refugees tell us how forced confessions are obtained: by torturing children while their parents are made to watch. :: 030128

 It arises directly from the Iraqi regime's own actions, its history of aggression and its drive toward an arsenal of terror. :: 021007

 it could open the prospect of the United Nations helping to build a government that represents all Iraqis -- a government based on respect for human rights, economic liberty, and internationally supervised elections. :: 020912

 It is up to Iraq to show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons, lay those weapons out for the world to see and destroy them as directed. :: 030128

 It will accept U.N. administration of funds from that program, to ensure that the money is used fairly and promptly for the benefit of the Iraqi people. :: 020912

 Just months after the 1991 cease-fire, the Security Council twice renewed its demand that the Iraqi regime cooperate fully with inspectors, condemning Iraq's serious violations of its obligations. :: 020912

 Last year, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights found that Iraq continues to commit extremely grave violations of human rights, and that the regime's repression is all pervasive. :: 020912

 Liberty for the Iraqi people is a great moral cause, and a great strategic goal. :: 020912

 Like Saddam Hussein, some of today's tyrants are gripped by an implacable hatred of the United States of America. :: 010501

 Many nations are joining us in insisting that Saddam Hussein's regime be held accountable. :: 021007

 Many people have asked how close Saddam Hussein is to developing a nuclear weapon. :: 021007

 Members of the Congress of both political parties, and members of the United Nations Security Council, agree that Saddam Hussein is a threat to peace and must disarm. :: 021007

 Now, this war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion. :: 010920

 of course, sophisticated delivery systems are not required for a chemical or biological attack -- all that might be required are a small container and one terrorist or Iraqi intelligence operative to deliver it. :: 021007

 On Saddam Hussein's orders, opponents have been decapitated, wives and mothers of political opponents have been systematically raped as a method of intimidation, and political prisoners have been forced to watch their own children being tortured. :: 021007

 On Wednesday, Secretary of State Powell briefed the United Nations Security Council on Iraq's illegal weapons program, its attempts to hide those weapons, and its links to terrorist groups. :: 030208r

 Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. :: 030128

 Our nation and the world must learn the lessons of the Korean Peninsula and not allow an even greater threat to rise up in Iraq. :: 030128

 Our partnership of nations can meet the test before us, by making clear what we now expect of the Iraqi regime. :: 020912

 Over the years, Iraq has provided safe haven to terrorists such as Abu Nidal, whose terror organization carried out more than ninety terrorist attacks in twenty countries that killed or injured nearly 900 people, including 12 Americans. :: 021007

 Real scientists have been coached by Iraqi officials on what to say. :: 030128

 right now those resolutions are being unilaterally subverted by the Iraqi regime. :: 020912

 Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons. :: 020912

 Saddam Hussein's actions have put us on notice -- and there is no refuge from our responsibilities. :: 021007

 Saddam Hussein also has experience in using chemical weapons. :: 021007

 Saddam Hussein attacked Iran in 1980 and Kuwait in 1990. :: 020912

 Saddam Hussein has defied all these efforts and continues to develop weapons of mass destruction. :: 020912

 Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his "nuclear mujahedeen" -- his nuclear holy warriors. :: 021007

 Saddam Hussein has longstanding, direct and continuing ties to terrorist networks. :: 030208r

 Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these prohibited munitions. :: 030128

 Saddam Hussein has not credibly explained these activities. :: 030128

 Saddam Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. :: 030128

 Saddam Hussein has subverted this program, working around the sanctions to buy missile technology and military materials. :: 020912

 Saddam Hussein is a serious threat. He is a significant problem. :: 020904

 Saddam Hussein is harboring terrorists and the instruments of terror, the instruments of mass death and destruction. :: 021007

 Saddam Hussein must disarm himself -- or, for the sake of peace, we will lead a coalition to disarm him. :: 021007

 Saddam Hussein was given a final chance. :: 030208r

 Saddam Hussein was required to fully cooperate in the disarmament of his regime. :: 030208r

 Saddam Hussein was required to make a full declaration of his weapons programs. :: 030208r

 Saddam Hussein would be in a position to blackmail anyone who opposes his aggression. :: 021007

 Saddam Hussein would be in a position to pass nuclear technology to terrorists. :: 021007

 Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past. :: 021007

 Secretary of State Powell will present information and intelligence about Iraqi's--Iraq's illegal weapons programs, its attempts to hide those weapons from inspectors and its links to terrorist groups. :: 030128

 Senior members of Iraqi intelligence and al Qaeda have met at least eight times since the early 1990s. :: 030208r

 Should he choose the other course, in the name of peace, the United States will lead a coalition of the willing to disarm the Iraqi regime of weapons of mass destruction and free the Iraqi people. :: 030107

 Should Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year. :: 020912

 Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. :: 021007

 Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. :: 021007

 Some worry that a change of leadership in Iraq could create instability and make the situation worse. :: 021007

 Spent most of our time talking about a serious threat to the United States, a serious threat to the world, and that's Saddam Hussein. :: 020904

 that is the source of our urgent concern about Saddam Hussein's links to international terrorist groups. :: 021007

 That same year, information from a high-ranking Iraqi nuclear engineer who had defected, revealed that despite his public promises, Saddam Hussein had ordered his nuclear program to continue. :: 021007

 The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. :: 030128

 The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. :: 020912

 The dictator of Iraq is a student of Stalin, using murder as a tool of terror and control within his own cabinet, and within his own army, and even within his own family. :: 021007

 The dictator of Iraq is not disarming. :: 030128

 The entire world has witnessed Iraq's 11-year history of defiance, deception, and bad faith. :: 021007

 The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. :: 021007

 The history, the logic, and the facts lead to one conclusion: Saddam Hussein's regime is a grave and gathering danger. :: 020912

 The inspectors discovered that Iraq had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a workable nuclear weapon, and was pursuing several different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb. :: 021007

 The inspectors, however, concluded that Iraq had likely produced two to four times that amount. :: 021007

 The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb. :: 030128

 the international community would have faced a very different situation had Hussein been able to blackmail with nuclear weapons. :: 010501

 The Iraqi regime's violations of Security Council Resolutions are evident, they are dangerous to America and the world, and they continue to this hour. :: 030208r

 The Iraqi regime bugged hotel rooms and offices of inspectors to find where they were going next. :: 021007

 The Iraqi regime has acquired and tested the means to deliver weapons of mass destruction. :: 030208r

 The Iraqi regime has actively and secretly attempted to obtain equipment needed to produce chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. :: 030208r

 The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. :: 020129

 The Iraqi regime has violated all of those obligations. :: 021007

 The job of the inspectors is to verify that Iraq's regime is disarming. :: 030128

 The long captivity of Iraq will end, and an era of new hope will begin. :: 021007

 The people of Iraq can shake off their captivity. :: 020912

 The people of Iraq deserve it; the security of all nations requires it. :: 020912

 The regime in Iraq would likely have possessed a nuclear weapon no later than 1993. :: 021007

 The Security Council again renewed that demand in 1994, and twice more in 1996, deploring Iraq's clear violations of its obligations. :: 020912

 The Security Council renewed its demand three more times in 1997, citing flagrant violations; and three more times in 1998, calling Iraq's behavior totally unacceptable. :: 020912

 The situation could hardly get worse, for world security, and for the people of Iraq. :: 021007

 The threat comes from Iraq. :: 021007

 The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons materials sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax; enough doses to kill several million people. :: 030128

 The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin; enough to subject millions of people to death by respiratory failure. :: 030128

 The United States has no quarrel with the Iraqi people; they've suffered too long in silent captivity. :: 020912

 The United States supports political and economic liberty in a unified Iraq. :: 020912

 The United States will ask the U. N. Security Council to convene on February the 5th to consider the facts of Iraq's ongoing defiance of the world. :: 030128

 the United States, along with a growing coalition of nations, will take whatever action is necessary to defend ourselves and disarm the Iraqi regime. :: 030208r

 The world's demands are clear: For the sake of peace, Saddam Hussein must disarm himself of all weapons of mass destruction, and prove that he has done so. :: 030107

 The world has also tried economic sanctions and watched Iraq use billions of dollars in illegal oil revenues to fund more weapons purchases, rather than providing for the needs of the Iraqi people. :: 021007

 The world has tried limited military strikes to destroy Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities - only to see them openly rebuilt, while the regime again denies they even exist. :: 021007

 The world has tried no-fly zones to keep Saddam from terrorizing his own people . :: 021007

 The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. :: 030128

 There's no question that the leader of Iraq is an evil man. :: 011000

 These steps would also change the nature of the Iraqi regime itself. :: 021007

 these witnesses must be free to bring their families with them, so they are all beyond the reach of Saddam Hussein's terror and murder. :: 021007

 They also are willing and want to work with countries like Iraq to develop the capacity to deliver weapons of mass destruction. :: 020914

 This builds on a tradition of visionary leadership begun by President Sadat and King Hussein and carried forward by President Mubarak and King Abdullah. :: 020404

 This effort of deception is directed from the highest levels of the Iraqi regime, including Saddam Hussein, his son, Iraq's vice president and the very official responsible for cooperating with inspectors. :: 030208r

 This is the situation as we find it -- 12 years after Saddam Hussein agreed to disarm and more than 90 days after the Security Council passed Resolution 1441 by a unanimous vote. :: 030208r

 This is why two administrations -- mine and President Clinton's -- have stated that regime change in Iraq is the only certain means of removing a great danger to our nation. :: 021007

 This network runs a poison and explosive training camp in northeast Iraq, and many of its leaders are known to be in Baghdad. :: 030208r

 Those governments, like Iraq, that reward parents for the sacrifice of their children are guilty of soliciting murder of the worst kind. :: 020404

 To suspend hostilities, to spare himself, Iraq's dictator accepted a series of commitments. :: 020912

 To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror. :: 021007

 Today in Iraq, we see a threat whose outlines are far more clearly defined -- and whose consequences could be far more deadly. :: 021007

 Today, Iraq continues to withhold important information about its nuclear program -- weapons design, procurement logs, experiment data, an accounting of nuclear materials and documentation of foreign assistance. :: 020912

 tonight I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of Iraq: Your enemy is not surrounding your country, your enemy is ruling your country. :: 030128

 Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option. :: 030128

 Twelve years ago, Iraq invaded Kuwait without provocation. :: 020912

 Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last casualty in a war he had started and lost. :: 030128

 U. S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. :: 030128

 U.N. inspectors believe Iraq has produced two to four times the amount of biological agents it declared, and has failed to account for more than three metric tons of material that could be used to produce biological weapons. :: 020912

 Understanding the threats of our time, knowing the designs and deceptions of the Iraqi regime, we have every reason to assume the worst, and we have an urgent duty to prevent the worst from occurring. :: 021007

 United Nations' inspections also revealed that Iraq likely maintains stockpiles of VX, mustard and other chemical agents, and that the regime is rebuilding and expanding facilities capable of producing chemical weapons. :: 020912

 We're also confronting the outlaw regime in Iraq that lives by violence and deception, and is arming to threaten the civilized world. :: 030107

 We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical and biological weapons across broad areas. :: 021007

 We agree that the Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons, and diseases, and gases, and atomic weapons. :: 021007

 We also know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist network headed by a senior al Qaeda terrorist planner. :: 030208r

 We are concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using UAVs for missions targeting the United States. :: 021007

 We could wait and hope that Saddam does not give weapons to terrorists, or develop a nuclear weapon to blackmail the world. :: 021007

 We have called on the United Nations to fulfill its charter and stand by its demand that Iraq disarm. :: 030128

 We have learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb making, poisons, and deadly gases. :: 021007

 we have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have. :: 030208r

 We know now, were it not for that war, the regime in Iraq would likely have possessed a nuclear weapon no later than 1993. :: 020912

 we know that after September 11, Saddam Hussein's regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America. :: 021007

 We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. :: 021007

 We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America. :: 021007

 we know that Iraq is continuing to finance terror, and gives assistance to groups that use terrorism to undermine Middle East peace. :: 021007

 We know that Saddam Hussein pursued weapons of mass murder even when inspectors were in his country. :: 020912

 We will consult, but let there be no misunderstanding: If Saddam Hussein does not fully disarm for the safety of our people, and for the peace of the world, we will lead a coalition to disarm him. :: 030128

 When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, the world joined forces to turn him back. :: 010501

 When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women, and children. :: 021007

 While there are many dangers in the world, the threat from Iraq stands alone -- because it gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place. :: 021007

 With every step the Iraqi regime takes toward gaining and deploying the most terrible weapons, our own options to confront that regime will narrow. :: 020912

 With nuclear arms or a full arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, Saddam Hussein could resume his ambitions of conquest in the Middle East and create deadly havoc in that region. :: 030128

 Work at testing and production facilities shows that Iraq is building more long-range missiles that it can inflict mass death throughout the region. :: 020912

 Year after year, Saddam Hussein has gone to elaborate lengths, spent enormous sums, taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass destruction. :: 030128

 Yet Saddam Hussein has chosen to build and keep these weapons, despite international sanctions. :: 021007

 You mentioned Iraq. :: 011000