From the full text of Bush's State of the Union address, here are the claims Bush made with regard to Iraq (all text quoted, some text elided):
- To spare himself, [Saddam Hussein] agreed to disarm of all weapons of mass destruction. For the next 12 years, he systematically violated that agreement. He pursued chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons even while inspectors were in his country.
- Nothing to date has restrained him from his pursuit of these weapons - not economic sanctions, not isolation from the civilized world, not even cruise missile strikes on his military facilities.
- Almost three months ago, the United Nations Security Council gave Saddam Hussein his final chance to disarm. He has shown instead his utter contempt for the United Nations, and for the opinion of the world.
- The job of the [UN weapons] inspectors is to verify that Iraq's regime is disarming. It is up to Iraq to show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons... lay those weapons out for the world to see... and destroy them as directed. Nothing like this has happened.
- The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons materials sufficient to produce over 25,000 litres of anthrax - enough doses to kill several million people. He has not accounted for that material. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed it.
- The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 litres of botulinum toxin - enough to subject millions of people to death by respiratory failure. He has not accounted for that material. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed it.
- Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard, and Vx nerve agent. He has not accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.
- US intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently turned up 16 of them, despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their existence. Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these prohibited munitions. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.
- From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs. Saddam Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon, and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb.
The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. - Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high strength aluminium tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.
- From intelligence sources, we know, for instance, that thousands of Iraqi security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from the UN inspectors - sanitizing inspection sites, and monitoring the inspectors themselves.
- Iraqi officials accompany the inspectors in order to intimidate witnesses.
- Iraq is blocking U-2 surveillance flights requested by the United Nations.
- Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as the scientists inspectors are supposed to interview. Real scientists have been coached by Iraqi officials on what to say.
- And intelligence sources indicate that Saddam Hussein has ordered that scientists who co-operate with UN inspectors in disarming Iraq will be killed, along with their families.
- Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications, and statements by people now in custody, reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al-Qaeda.
- This dictator, who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons, has already used them on whole villages - leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind, or disfigured. Iraqi refugees tell us how forced confessions are obtained - by torturing children while their parents are made to watch. International human rights groups have catalogued other methods used in the torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and rape.
Bush also gives the weapons of mass destruction as the main justification for the impending war: Let there be no misunderstanding: If Saddam Hussein does not fully disarm, for the safety of our people, and for the peace of the world, we will lead a coalition to disarm him.
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