
Entry 108Apr 13, 2004
“Saddam Hussein was a threat. He was a threat because he had used weapons of mass destruction on his own people.”108
108President George W. Bush, President of the United States, Prime Time Press Conference, April 13, 2004. Source
Why it’s on the record. In 2004, Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group, reported that Iraq had no chemical or biological weapon stockpiles before the U.S. invasion and that its nuclear program had decayed since 1991.
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On the record
The President defended the decision to go to war by citing Hussein's history with WMDs.
- Said by
- President George W. Bush, President of the United States
- Where
- Prime Time Press Conference
- When
- Apr 13, 2004
- Source
- Prime Time Press Conference, April 13, 2004