"There was a risk, a real risk, that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons or materials or information

"There was a risk, a real risk, that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons or materials or information to terrorist networks. In the world after Sept. 11, that was a risk we could not afford to take."
President Bush
Speaking in Wilkes Barre, Pa. A report from the Iraq Survey Group found no evidence Iraq produced any weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
"In short, we invaded a country, thousands of people have died, and Iraq never posed a grave or growing danger."
Sen. Jay Rockefeller
West Virginia Democrat, reacting to the Iraq Survey Group report. Rockefeller has been a harsh critic of Bush's Iraq policy.