# President Bush, Iraq, and WMD **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 3, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-iraq-and-wmd/166249 "2003-04-03T17:40:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TJ555\_The\_Golfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@TJ555\_The\_Golfer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJ555_The_Golfer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-iraq-and-wmd/166249/1 "2003-04-03T17:40:13Z")
Did President Bush ever say the United States has definitive evidence or proof that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-iraq-and-wmd/166249/2 "2003-04-03T18:10:34Z")
[Bush Speech to the United Nations](http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/2002/0912bush.htm) (Sep 12, 2002) > [@](#): > > We know that Saddam Hussein pursued weapons of mass murder even when inspectors were in the country. Are we to assume that he stopped when they left? The history, the logic and the facts lead to one conclusion. [U.S. reluctant to reveal data](http://www.intellnet.org/news/2003/01/27/15884-1.htm) (January 27, 2003) > [@](#): > > ‘‘The dictator of Iraq has got weapons of mass destruction,’’ Bush said last week. ‘‘He’s a dangerous, dangerous man with dangerous, dangerous weapons.’’ ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-iraq-and-wmd/166249/3 "2003-04-03T18:23:40Z")
I don`t recall the words “proof” or “definitive evidence” ever being used by the President. That would be the key to the OP.