For the Record

President Bush: “Countering Iraq’s threat is also a central commitment on the war on terror. We know Saddam Hussein has longstanding and ongoing ties to international terrorists. With the support and shelter of a regime, terror groups become far more lethal. Aided by a terrorist network, an outlaw regime can launch attacks while concealing its involvement. Even a dictator is not suicidal, but he can make use of men who are. We must confront both terror cells and terror states, because they are different faces of the same evil.” . . . “We must make sure this madman never has the capacity to hurt us with a nuclear weapon, or to use the stockpiles of anthrax that we know he has, or VX, the biological weapons which he possesses.”

House minority leader Dick Gephardt on supporting Bush war resolution: “We disagree on many domestic issues, but this is the most important thing that we do. This should not be about politics. We have to do what is right for the security of our nation and the safety of all Americans.” . . . Sen. Joe Lieberman (D., Conn.): “Every additional day that Saddam Hussein is in power in Iraq is an additional day of danger for the Iraqi people, for his neighbors in the region, particularly for the people and military of the United States of America, and indeed for the people of the world.” . . . Sen. John Warner (R., Va.): “We cannot let the U.N. think in any way they can veto the authority of this president or the ability of this nation to defend itself.” . . . CIA report: “Since inspections ended in 1998, Iraq has maintained its chemical weapons effort, energized its missile program and invested more heavily in biological weapons.”

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President Bush: “Countering Iraq’s threat is also a central commitment on the war on terror. We know Saddam Hussein has longstanding and ongoing ties to international terrorists. With the support and shelter of a regime, terror groups become far more lethal. Aided by a terrorist network, an outlaw regime can launch attacks while concealing its involvement. Even a dictator is not suicidal, but he can make use of men who are. We must confront both terror cells and terror states, because they are different faces of the same evil.” . . . “We must make sure this madman never has the capacity to hurt us with a nuclear weapon, or to use the stockpiles of anthrax that we know he has, or VX, the biological weapons which he possesses.”

House minority leader Dick Gephardt on supporting Bush war resolution: “We disagree on many domestic issues, but this is the most important thing that we do. This should not be about politics. We have to do what is right for the security of our nation and the safety of all Americans.” . . . Sen. Joe Lieberman (D., Conn.): “Every additional day that Saddam Hussein is in power in Iraq is an additional day of danger for the Iraqi people, for his neighbors in the region, particularly for the people and military of the United States of America, and indeed for the people of the world.” . . . Sen. John Warner (R., Va.): “We cannot let the U.N. think in any way they can veto the authority of this president or the ability of this nation to defend itself.” . . . CIA report: “Since inspections ended in 1998, Iraq has maintained its chemical weapons effort, energized its missile program and invested more heavily in biological weapons.”