Like him or not, don't put quotations around President. It's insulting. Whether you like or not, that's precisely what he is.
And as Endymon pointed out, all Saddam had to do was hand over the proper documentation. He failed to account for all of his weapons, and that is what lead us to this war.
Iraq produced tons of weapons: 550 artillery shells filled with mustard gas, 107,500 casings for chemical weapons, 157 aerial bombs filled with germ agents, 25 missile warheads containing germ agents (like anthrax), and other stuff I don't care to list; this is all stuff they've admitted to having. Iraq never properly told us, to our satisfaction, where these weapons went.
If this weren't enough, the Bush administration uncovered what they thought to be new threats of "weapons of mass destruction." Considering we haven't found anything yet, might this information have been false? Yeah, definately. But would it have been reckless and irresponsible of America not to react to this intelligence? Definately. "Well, we've received information that they've got weapons that could blow us out of the water, but considering we haven't actually been hit by any of it, shouldn't we just wait?" No, no, and no.
Side-tracked? Oh yeah, baby, but I don't much care for this thread's original use anyway.
