When I found out there were no weapons of mass destruction, right there we had no reason being there. I think Bush is avenging his father. It seems more personal than anything else.

We're trying to protect these communities from our own weapons of mass destruction. We didn't have to go to Iraq to find these things. They're right here.

He'd like to see Saddam come clean and disarm, bring those weapons of mass destruction to a parking lot and allow them to be destroyed, ... He'd like to see a regime change in Iraq, so the Iraqi people can live in freedom and have more liberties -- and Saddam Hussein can still do that. The burden is on Saddam Hussein.

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

Saddam's goal ... is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

The intent of the Iraqi regime to keep from turning over all of its weapons of mass destruction, seems to me, has not changed,