My administration, the Congress, and the United Nations saw the threat, and after 9/11, Saddam's regime posed a risk that the world could not afford to take.

The Iranian radio said a "spy affiliated to the regime occupying Jerusalem," an allusion to Israel, and "posing as a war correspondent," had entered Iran on a forged passport and had been arrested.

The official motivation to go to war was that the Iraqi regime posed a serious threat to the West because of its weapons of mass destruction.

Cheney argued persuasively that a regime like that of Saddam Hussein posed a real and significant threat to the United States and the rest of the world.

"Professor, that's only because a regime poses a security risk," Mr. Valentine said.

We have a video for you now of George Osborne explaining that the Iranian regime posed a "significant threat to the UK's national security and the international community".

He thus concludes that while Communist regimes are more difficult to eradicate, traditional autocratic regimes "pose the more lethal threat to functioning democracies."

By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.

Our eyes have been opened very late to the acute danger that the North Korean regime poses - to the international community as well.

Like the Brussels Council of 20 March last, we hope that this combat will result in a free, sovereign Iraq, whose regime does not pose a threat to its neighbours or to its own people.