WRAP Bush, statement by US chief weapons inspector Kay and reax — Transcript

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1. 0:02uh thank you all for coming
2. 0:04make a couple of statements i'm going to
3. 0:06ask bernie carrick to make a statement
4. 0:07and i'll answer two questions before i
5. 0:09go milwaukee first
6. 0:13this interim progress report is not
7. 0:15final
8. 0:17extensive work remains to be done
9. 0:20on his biological chemical and nuclear
10. 0:22weapons programs
11. 0:25but these findings already make clear
12. 0:30that saddam hussein
13. 0:33actively deceived the international
14. 0:36community
15. 0:38that saddam hussein was in clear
16. 0:40violation of united nations security
17. 0:42council resolution 1441 and that saddam
18. 0:46hussein was a danger to the world
19. 0:52they have done a lot of work in three
20. 0:54months
21. 0:55we had a clandestine network
22. 0:57of biological laboratories
23. 1:00sometimes the american people
24. 1:04like the decisions they make sometimes
25. 1:05they don't but they need to know i'll
26. 1:07make tough decisions based upon what i
27. 1:09think is right given the intelligence i
28. 1:10know in order to do my job which is
29. 1:13secure this country
30. 1:15and to bring peace
31. 1:16thank you all
32. 1:23bernie a good man
33. 1:30this morning i had the opportunity to
34. 1:32get a briefing
35. 1:34from dr k
36. 1:35we just want to find the truth
37. 1:38it's not about fighting the battle of
38. 1:40whether we should go into war not yet we
39. 1:41want to find the truth we must protect
40. 1:44the american people but one thing is
41. 1:46certain
42. 1:47whatever they find in three to six
43. 1:50months from now they have not found the
44. 1:53imminence of a threat it is clear again
45. 1:56that there was time for more diplomatic
46. 1:58efforts to be employed for us to have
47. 2:00exhausted more remedies before we went
48. 2:02to war
49. 2:14well we've shared in the classified
50. 2:16report about two dozen major cases
51. 2:19of where iraq hit equipment or engaged
52. 2:22in prohibited activities
53. 2:24that were not permitted under the u.n
54. 2:26resolution
55. 2:27there is a large number of these in the
56. 2:29missile area as you probably know
57. 2:32a solid fuel program
58. 2:34this isn't an issue about intentions
59. 2:36or what the hopes were or what the plans
60. 2:38were or what the programs were what took
61. 2:41us to war were statements about
62. 2:44weapons of mass destruction
63. 2:46in the pres in the possession of saddam
64. 2:48hussein and the threat of their imminent
65. 2:50use so this report is valuable to all of
66. 2:53us it should be read in its entirety
67. 2:55it's not completed but it needs to also
68. 2:58be consumed and to be accepted it seems
69. 3:01to me and understood by the
70. 3:02administration i must say that
71. 3:05both the senator bird and i had an
72. 3:07opportunity in the armed services
73. 3:08committee
74. 3:09to hear dr kate today
75. 3:12in his classified debriefing and
76. 3:16all i can say is
77. 3:17i didn't believe there was an imminent
78. 3:19threat to the united states when we went
79. 3:21to war and i'm more convinced than other
80. 3:23listening to him that there never was a
81. 3:25threat either
82. 3:31good morning i've just completed a uh it
83. 3:33was a danger it was a danger to the
84. 3:35world how clear and present it was
85. 3:37people can judge we thought it was a
86. 3:39danger to the world that had to be dealt
87. 3:40with that's what the united states did
88. 3:43in concert with a willing coalition of
89. 3:45uh nations and the iraqi people are
90. 3:48better off as a result the region is
91. 3:51better off the world is better off and
92. 3:53we're even more convinced with the k
93. 3:55report that we did the right thing thank
94. 3:57you
95. 4:03you