
'I acted because I was not about to leave the security of the American people in the hands of a madman,' Mr Bush told National Guardsmen and reservists in New Hampshire. 'I was not about to stand by and wait and trust in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein.'
In a sideswipe at his critics who have highlighted the failure to find weapons of mass destruction, he added: 'Who could possibly think that the world would be better off with Saddam Hussein still in power?'
No comments:
Post a Comment