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"Before you went in, Iraqis were an oppressed people, and the dictator threatened his neighbors, the Middle East and the world. Today, the Iraqis are liberated people, the former regime is gone, and our nation and the world is more secure."
Miramar, California, Aug. 14, 2003

"We ended the rule of one of history's worst tyrants, and in so doing we not only freed the American people, we made our own people more secure."
Crawford, Texas, May 3, 2003

"The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the -- the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."
White House, Oct. 27, 2003

"A free and peaceful Iraq is going to be the kind of place where a tyrant can't summarily cut somebody's hand off. And some day an American President is going to sit down and talk to a duly-elected official from Iraq, talking about how to keep the peace in a volatile part of the world. And he or she as President is going to say, thank God my predecessor and the American people had great belief in liberty to transform the world."
Ohio, August 28, 2004

"The more people involved in Iraq, the better off we will be. And that's exactly what our intention is, to encourage people to participate in the -- making Iraq more secure and more free. A free Iraq is a crucial part of winning the war on terror. And now I'm going to go see to it that the Prime Minister is well fed. We're going to feed him some chicken."
Crawford, Texas, Jul. 21, 2003

"I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese. That meant that they weren't very effective."
Presidential press conference, White House, Feb. 22, 2001

"F-ck Saddam! we're taking him out."
as reported in Time Magazine, Mar. 24, 2003