Ability Quote by Donald Rumsfeld

There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the United States and to our allies. If Saddam persists in thumbing his nose…

— Howard Dean

Every intelligence agency in the world believed that Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction, precursor chemicals. The inspectors, over a period of…

— John Reid

No disarmament regime is foolproof, and it was always understood that Assad likely hid some elements of his chemical weapons production capacity from inspectors.

— Tom Malinowski

The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological…

— Robert Byrd

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively…

— Anonymous

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and…

— Nancy Pelosi

There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified,…

— Tommy Franks

One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that we went…

— Wesley Clark

I don't think that the United States has the bulk of the responsibility. I really put that on Bashar Assad and on the Iraqis…

— Hillary Clinton

The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to…

— Anonymous

We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence,…

— John F. Kerry

There is an enormous amount of evidence that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, is doing his best to develop more lethal weapons, and…

— Mike Pence