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Originally posted by Christopher M ...the peace of the world must never again be destroyed by the will and wickedness of any man. In one place, we find exactly the kind of aggressive threat the UN was born to confront. The Unites States has no quarrel with the Iraqi people; they've suffered long in silent captivity. Liberty for the Iraqi people is a great moral cause, and a great strategic goal. The people of Iraq deserve it; the security of all nations requires it. If we fail to act in the face of danger, the people of Iraq will continue to live in brutal submission. If we meet out responsabilities, if we overcome this danger, we can arrive at a very different future. The people of Iraq can shake off their captivity.
-September 12, 2002.
I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of Iraq: Your enemy is nor surrounding your country - your enemy is ruling your country. And the day he and his regime are removed from power will be the day of your liberation.
-January 28, 2003.
Today, no nation can possibly claim that Iraq has disarmed. And it will not disarm so long as Saddam Hussein holds power... Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict...
-March 17, 2003.
American and coalition forces are in early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger... We have no ambition in Iraq, except to remove a threat and restore control of that country to its own people.
-March 19, 2003
Did some highlighting of my own. What's he talking about there?
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Here's transcripts of Bush's speeches specifically on that topic. You can observe for yourself that WMD did not feature at all as an issue until relatively recently, and never were depicted as the contingent issue for war.
What's relatively recently? It was (as Joedoe and I've both mentioned) Oz's (and elsewhere?) prime motivation for entering the war. Obviously I'm not exposed to UK and US mass media apart from garbage like CNN which I choose not to watch, so I don't know what reasons were given there. However, I highly doubt we (following the US into war) would have a completely different reason to the main antagonist (the US).