Anyway, let me walk you through it then.
1)
the lesson of September the 11th is, when this nation sees a threat, a gathering threat, we've got to deal with it. We can no longer hope that oceans protect us from harm. Every threat we must take seriously.
2)
Saddam Hussein was a threat.
3)
He was a threat because he had used weapons of mass destruction on his own people.
He was a threat because he coddled terrorists.
He was a threat because he funded suiciders.
He was a threat to the region.
He was a threat to the United States.
4)
That's the assessment that I made from the intelligence,
the assessment that Congress made from the intelligence;
that's the exact same assessment that the United Nations Security Council made with the intelligence.
