WASHINGTON, April 13 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush Tuesday said it was good the United States had ousted Saddam Hussein, even if no weapons of mass destruction have been found.
"Of course I want to know why we haven't found a weapon yet, but I still know Saddam Hussein was a threat, and the world is better off without Saddam Hussein," the president said in an hour-long White House news conference. He was responding to a question concerning using the WMD issue to justify going to war with Iraq.
Said Bush: "Saddam Hussein was a threat. He was a threat because he had used weapons of mass destruction on his own people. He was a threat because he coddled terrorists. He was a threat because he funded suiciders. He was a threat to the region. He was a threat to the United States.
"That's the assessment that I made from the intelligence, the assessment that Congress made from the intelligence; that's the exact same assessment that the United Nations Security Council made with the intelligence."
