Wmd Quotes - Page 3

I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.

I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein - because he had a weapons program.

We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some... And so we will find them.

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

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

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

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.

I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.

U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction.

So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now.

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.

Some people that work for Hot Pockets came to my Denver Paramount Theater show. They brought these hot pocket boxes the size of suit cases for me to sign. I wrote "these are WMD's" on the boxes. The HP people seem to have a good sense of humor about all of it.

The claims made about Iraq's WMD capabilities before the invasion were inaccurate, wrong, and in some cases, deliberately misleading.

If we wait for the danger to become clear, it could be too late.

Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction

There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He's had those for a long time. But the United States right now is on a very much different defensive posture than we were before September 11th of 2001 He is, as far as we know, actively pursuing nuclear capabilities, though he doesn't have nuclear warheads yet. If he were to acquire nuclear weapons, I think our friends in the region would face greatly increased risks as would we.

Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

Similarly, the press never tested many of the assumptions about WMDs. One of the great myths about the WMD issue is that everybody believed Iraq had them. Well, that's not true. There were a number of people in the intelligence community and the State Department who were skeptical, and many analysts in the Department of Energy were dubious about Iraq's nuclear capability. There were also people like Scott Ritter who were saying quite accurately what was going on.

The fact is that there is now, we know well, a proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that many weapons that Saddam Hussein had, we don't know where they are. That means terrorists have access to all of that.

The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.