“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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Quoted by Lawrence Wilkerson in Breaking Ranks Larry Wilkerson Attacked the Iraq War. In the Process, He Lost the Friendship of Colin Powell. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2006/01/19/breaking-ranks-span-classbankheadlarry-wilkerson-attacked-the-iraq-war-in-the-process-he-lost-the-friendship-of-colin-powellspan/d1f359c6-93a0-41c1-beee-2284d6284d47/ Washington Post, by Richard Lei (19 January 2006)
2000s

“I wasn't happy when we found out there wasn't weapons [of mass destruction in Iraq]</s”
2nd Presidential Debate, October 8, 2004
2000s, 2004

“Before people crow about the absence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.”
Prime Minister's monthly press conference, April 2003 http://web.archive.org/20030511155256/www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page3535.asp, Prime Minister's website.
28 April 2003.
2000s

"Peace as a Civil Right" from A Prayer for America (2003) [Nation Books, ISBN 1-56025-510-2], p. 76

2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)

(18 February 1998); Quoted on U S News, October 25, 2011 http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/Jamie-Stiehm/2011/10/25/obama-adept-abroad-inept-at-home/comments

Narrating a humorous slide show at the Radio and Television News Correspondents Association, with a series of photos depicting himself searching through the Oval Office of the White House for the weapons of mass destruction which his administration had claimed to exist, but ultimately failed to find, in Iraq. http://www.wherearethewmd.org/evolutionary_rhetoric.php, March 25, 2004
2000s, 2004

In a Press conference, regarding the weapon of mass destruction of Iraq. (May 1, 2003) https://archive.is/20130705182739/www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_1-5-2003_pg4_1
2000 - 2005

To Gilles Duceppe during the 2008 English leaders' debate, October 2, 2008: On the Iraq war.
2008