if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction
We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.
Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.
Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it.
There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.