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Disarmament DocumentationBack to Disarmament Documentation 'I, too, want to know the facts', President Bush on Iraq WMD intelligence, January 30'President Meets with Top Economists - Economy Continues to Grow', The White House, January 30, 2004. Q Mr. President. Senator McCain, David Kay, among many others, say it's time for an independent investigation into weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and intelligence. Why resist this kind of inquiry now, when your own weapons inspector says it's needed? THE PRESIDENT: I want the American people to know that I, too, want to know the facts. I want to be able to compare what the Iraqi Survey Group has found with what we thought prior to going into Iraq. One thing is for certain, one thing we do know from Mr. Kay's
testimony, as well as from the years of intelligence that we had
gathered, is that Saddam Hussein was a danger. He was a growing
danger. And given the circumstances of September the 11th, this
country went to the United Nations and said, Saddam Hussein is a
danger, let us work together to get him to disarm. He was defiant.
He ignored the request of the international community. And this
country led a coalition to remove him. We dealt with the danger,
and, as a result, the world is a better place and a more peaceful
place and the Iraqi people are free. And a free Iraq is in this
nation's national interest. A free Iraq will bring a much needed
change in a part of the world that has fostered terror. Source: the White House, http://www.whitehouse.gov. © 2003 The Acronym Institute. |