Bush admits Iraq war decision 'a tough choice'

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Bush admits Iraq war decision 'a tough choice'

President George W. Bush admitted Monday that he made a tough choice on deciding the war to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, but he justified his war decision by insisting Saddam was a threat.

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President George W. Bush admitted Monday that he made a tough choice on deciding the war to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, but he justified his war decision by insisting Saddam was a threat.

"In Iraq, obviously, I made a tough choice," Bush said in remarks at the annual gathering of the National Governors Association in the White House.

However, "I looked at the intelligence and came to the conclusion that Saddam was a threat," Bush said, adding that his predecessor, former President Bill Clinton, the US Congress as well as the United Nations Security Council, all came to the conclusion that Saddam was a threat.

"And there is a reason why not only does the intelligence say that he was a threat., his actions said he was a threat. He had used weapons of mass destruction on his own people. He hid weapons of mass destruction from inspectors," Bush said.

Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were a main excuse for Bush to launch the war on March 20 last year that toppled the Saddam regime. However, the United States has so far failed to find such destruction weapons in Iraq.

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