"Saddam Husayn so dominated the Iraqi Regime that its
     strategic intent was his alone. He wanted to end
     sanctions while preserving the capability to reconstitute
     his weapons of mass destruction (WMD) when sanctions were
     lifted."

    In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to 
    this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I 
    reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation 
    of the terms of [U.N.] Resolution 1441. 

    Resolution 1441 required that Iraq report all of its 
    activities -- one last chance to come clean about what it 
    had. 

    We have discovered hundreds of cases, based on both 
    documents, physical evidence and the testimony of Iraqis, 
    of activities that were prohibited under the initial U.N. 
    Resolution 687 and that should have been reported under 
    1441, with Iraqi testimony that not only did they not tell
    the U.N. about this, they were instructed not to do it and
    they hid material.....

    ....the unparalleled looting and destruction, a lot of 
    which was directly intentional, designed by the security 
    services to cover the tracks of the Iraq WMD program and 
    their other programs as well.... 

    I think Iraq was a dangerous place becoming more dangerous,
    because, in fact, what we observe is that the regime itself
    was coming apart. It was descending into worse the part of
    moral depravity and corruption. Saddam was isolated in a 
    fantasy land capable of wreaking tremendous harm and terror
    on his individual citizens, but corruption, money gain was
    the root cause. 

    At the same time that we know there were terrorist groups 
    in state still seeking WMD capability. Iraq, although I 
    found no weapons, had tremendous capabilities in this 
    area. A marketplace phenomena was about to occur, if it 
    did not occur; sellers meeting buyers. And I think that 
    would have been very dangerous if the war had not intervened...

    ....Iraq remained a very dangerous place in terms of WMD 
    capabilities, even though we found no large stockpiles of 
    weapons..... 

     “I think at the end of the inspection process, we’ll
     paint a picture of Iraq that was far more dangerous than
     even we thought it was before the war.”

     “It was of a system collapsing. It was a country that had
     the capability in weapons of mass destruction areas, and
     terrorists, like ants to honey, were going after it.”

     Kay pointed out that prior to the war, the French, the
     British, the Germans and the UN “all thought Saddam
     (Hussein) had weapons of mass destruction. Not
     discovering them tells us we’ve got a more fundamental
     problem”.

     He said, “The tendency to say, well, it must have been
     pressure from the White House, is absolutely wrong.”
     Saddam “was putting more money into his nuclear
     programme, he was pushing ahead his long-range missile
     programme as hard as he could”.

     “We have collected dozens of examples of where he lied to
     the UN, violated Resolution 1441 and was in material
     breach,” Kay added. He noted that Saddam “had the intent
     to acquire these weapons. He invested huge amounts of
     money in them. The fact is that he wasn’t successful”.

    ".......All I can say is if you read the total body of 
    intelligence in the last 12 to 15 years that flowed on 
    Iraq, I quite frankly think it would be hard to come to a 
    conclusion other than Iraq was a gathering, serious 
    threat to the world with regard to WMD."