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" Seems like a nation-building, remake the map, idealistic adventure to me. A sideshow. Not sure I understand or agree with this sort of approach. Maybe by the time Novemeber rolls around, it will have been amply explained. I watched the President, but he did not convince me."

From the 2003 Sate of the Union address:

Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans -- this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known. We will do everything in our power to make sure that that day never comes.