Political Quotes

“I spent the weekend in my home State of Illinois, from the southern part of the State, the metro east, St. Clair County, Madison County, and the city of Chicago, going from one place to another, and it is interesting to me that people will stop and ask me about our going to war in Iraq. I have not found a single person who makes any excuses for Saddam Hussein. I will not. He is a man who certainly distinguished himself-- if that is the word--in the history of this world: for his aggression, his militarism, his inhumane treatment of his own people and his neighbors. He is someone who cannot be trusted but must be watched carefully and closely. He is someone who must be monitored at all times for fear he could go too far in his development of weapons and his development of military strategies as a threat to the world. Everyone concedes this. I certainly concede it. We found what he was all about when he invaded Kuwait. We have watched him closely ever since. The United Nations put restrictions on what he can do in defense of his own nation, limitations on his own military power. One of those limitations prohibits weapons of mass destruction: chemical weapons, biological weapons, and nuclear weapons. The United Nations started inspecting for those weapons after the Persian Gulf war. Saddam Hussein threw every obstacle he could find in their path. He discouraged them when he could, and ultimately the inspections were withdrawn 4 or 5 years ago.”