Bush Pledges to 'Reveal the Truth' on WMD

Thursday, June 5, 2003
Fox News' Jim Angle and The Associated Press contributed to this report

The White House hopes Bush's trips will show the world that the president will pursue peace as vigorously as he pursued the war.

DOHA, Qatar -- FOX / AP
President Bush paid a visit to troops at U.S. Central Command Thursday, proclaiming that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was justified and saying that "we'll reveal the truth" on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program.

Bush made special note of the recent discovery of what U.S. officials say are mobile biological weapons labs, adding that the search for banned arms could take a long time.

"But one thing is certain: no terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime because the Iraqi regime is no more," Bush said with his shirt sleeves casually rolled up as he addressed a sea of desert camouflage-clad U.S. soldiers at the command center for the Iraq war.

"We've made sure Iraq is not going to be used as an arsenal for terrorist groups," he added. Bush's visit comes as questions continue to swirl around his primary justification for the conflict in Iraq -- that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and was ready to use them.

Bush pointed to the laboratories in a recent interview with Polish television to say, "We found the weapons of mass destruction."

He said Saddam spent decades hiding tools of mass murder and likely got rid of many weapons before coalition troops entered Iraq.
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