Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass
destruction.
- Dick Cheney, August 26 2002

Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the
production of biological weapons.
- George W. Bush, September 12 2002

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once
again misleading the world.
- Ari Fleischer, December 2 2002

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
- Ari Fleischer, January 9 2003

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to
produce as much as 500 tons of sarin,
mustard and VX nerve agent."
- George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 28 2003

We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass
destruction, is determined to make more.
- Colin Powell, February 5 2003

We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi
field commanders to use chemical weapons.
- George Bush, February 8 2003

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the
Iraq regime continues to possess and
conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."
- George Bush, March 17 2003

Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has
weapons of mass destruction,
biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the
course of the operation,
for whatever duration it takes."
- Ari Fleischer, March 21 2003

There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass
destruction. As this operation
continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who
have produced them and
who guard them."
- Gen. Tommy Franks, March 22 2003

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.
- Donald Rumsfeld, March 30 2003.