(BBC) - U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said the Iraqi leader had "developed biological weapons, lied to the UN repeatedly about the stockpiles...and had used chemical weapons against his own people and against his neighbors. He has invaded his neighbors. He has killed thousands of his own people. He shoots at our planes...in the no-fly zone where we're trying to enforce UN security resolutions. This is an evil man [Saddam Hussein] who, left to his own devices, will wreak havoc again on his own population, his neighbors and, if he gets weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them, on all of us.
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