From CNN:

"There was no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein was a grave and gathering threat to America and the world," Bush said, speaking to reporters at the White House in an appearance with Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski, a U.S. ally in Iraq.

For what it's worth, the lack of jobs and the deficit is a greater gathering threat.

We know he was a dangerous man in a dangerous part of the world," Bush said. "We know that he defied the United Nations year after year after year. And given the offense of September 11, we know we could not trust the good intentions of Saddam Hussein because he didn't have any."

And who hasn't defied the United Nations?

Lies.

They clearly tried to gin up every piece of intelligence to try to get us to go into that war," Howard Dean said.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, a Democratic presidential candidate who voted against the congressional resolution authorizing Bush to go to war, said the United States could have avoided a costly and dangerous occupation if it had listened to U.N. inspectors.

"We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies," Kucinich said.

Yeaargh!!