And in the time that followed, I was someone who was a very strong advocate of taking the fight to the terrorists, initially in Afghanistan and even in Iraq, when I thought that Weapons of mass destruction were imminent, as I think the intelligence services said. And I think the president thought at the time, and I wrote a piece at the time which I could dig up, which was let's roll against Saddam Hussein. (05:15–05:22)
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Asserts that intelligence services indicated imminent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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