During a question-and-answer session at the Council on Foreign Relations on Monday, Rumsfeld also was asked what was the "number-one reason for the war."
Rumsfeld said President Bush made the judgment that Saddam "ran a vicious regime that had used weapons of mass destruction on its own people, as well as its neighbors, and that it was important to set that right by removing that regime before they, in fact, did gather weapons of mass destruction, either themselves or transferring them to terrorist networks."
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You know, I never heard Bush state that as a prime reason for going to war. Infact, I'm pretty sure it became a key reason only in the last year or so when the links to al Qaeda were proved as weak and the WoMDs were starting to look non-existent.
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