George W. Bush Quotes

At the end of the day, Iraq was a part of the fight against terrorism.

I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein: 'You're a threat'. And the 9/11 attacks accentuated that threat, as far as I'm concerned.

People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.

The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.

All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.

You can’t separate the struggle against the Baathists (of Iraq) from the struggle against global terrorism.

Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.

Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger.

Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.

We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'

The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.

They may be rich, they may be powerful, they may have atom bombs, but Americans and British are no longer safe anywhere in the world…. They may perhaps be able to put Al-Qaeda out of commission, but that does not mean that there will not be other groups. They have been killing so-called terrorist all these years, but there'll simply be more and more terrorists

I believe that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. I believe it's clear that he had every intention to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. I can only imagine what Saddam Hussein would be doing with the wealth he would acquire with oil at $110 and $120 a barrel.

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda.

Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it.

Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.

Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and making payments to the families of suicide bombers. He also had an established relationship with Al Qaida -- providing training to Al Qaida members in areas of poisons, gases and conventional bombs. He built, possessed, and used weapons of mass destruction.

Foreign fighters are travelling into Iraq to make it a front line in the war on terror. And I would rather defeat them there than face them in our own country.