“Since I know that about a million people have been killed by the government of Iraq, I do not need much those weapons of mass destruction.”

Defending the US government decision to invade Iraq, as quoted in "Nobel Finn" in Wall Street Journal (11 October 2008) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122367870922824537.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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