Scott McClellan: “The world is better off and America is more secure because Saddam Hussein was removed from power.”

The rest of the foreign policy team seemed to be preoccupied with regime change or, in the case of Condi Rice, seemingly more interested in accommodating the president's instincts and ideas than in questioning them or educating him.

We should have embraced a high legal of openness and forthrightness in addition to that and then the expectations wouldn't have gotten so out of whack.

It was the right decision to confront what was a grave and growing threat in the form of Saddam Hussein and his regime. It was based on solid and compelling evidence. And America is safer for it.

I said what I believed to be true at the time. It was also what the president believed to be true at the time based on assurances that we were both given. And knowing what I know today, I would have never said that back then.