From the President’s remarks on the Senate Intelligence Committee Report #

[L]isten, we thought there was going to be stockpiles of weapons. I thought so; the Congress thought so; the U.N. thought so. I’ll tell you what we do know. Saddam Hussein had the capacity to make weapons. See, he had the ability to make them. He had the intent. We knew he hated America. We knew he was paying families of suiciders. We knew he tortured his own people, and we knew he had the capability of making weapons. That we do know. They haven’t found the stockpiles, but we do know he could make them. And so he was a dangerous man. He was a dangerous man. The world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power. America is safer. #

Let’s get this straight: we don’t invade another country, destroy its government, kill innocent civilians, endanger our troops, and ruin our military’s ability to respond effectively to additional crises just because some tin-pot dictator could make a WMD. I could make a WMD… theoretically… but I’m not going to make a WMD. Saddam Hussein apparently didn’t make a WMD, or he destroyed his stockpiles. Saddam Hussein wasn’t a dangerous man, he wasn’t capable of putting the US or our allies in grave peril, and the world is not safer because he’s not in power. #

I wonder… how many Iraqi civilians would Saddam have killed by now had he stayed in power? Would it have been more than the over 11,000 we’ve killed since January of ‘03? How many of our troops would still be alive or in one piece if Saddam were still in power? How many terrorists have we created because of our reckless actions? By what measure does anyone assert that we’re better off now than we were two years ago? #

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