Originally Posted by MrTrollkien

Nowhere in Bush 43's speeches leading up to the Iraq war was he specifying that Saddam had an "active WMD program". I urge all readers to go back to his speeches to the UN on 9/12/02, his Axis of Evil speech and also his speech to the nation on 3/17/03. He never said his aim was to take out an "active WMD program"; rather, as Bush repeatedly told the world audience, Saddam possessed old WMD, desired to evade inspections so as to keep them, hoped to restart his weapons program in the future and pass weapons to terrorist groups with intention to harm the West.