Bush Defends Decision to Invade Iraq - Yahoo News

We removed a declared enemy of America who had the capability of producing weapons of mass murder and could have passed that capability to terrorists bent on acquiring them. In the world after September 11th, that was a risk we could not afford to take.

Then President Bush added, "And Monkey's could have flown out of his ass, and he could have gained access to a staff of power, and he could have found the ancient arc of the covenant and used it against us. In a post 9/11 world I just could not let that, maybe, possibly, happen. Not to mention all that free democracy bullshit."