Bush: Iraq invasion was justified

Defending his decision to invade Iraq, US President George W Bush said that although stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons have not been found, Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce such arms and could have developed a nuclear weapon over time.

Bush denied he led the United States into war under false pretences, but he acknowledged that some pre-war intelligence apparently was inaccurate. He did not directly respond to election-year allegations that his administration exaggerated intelligence to bolster a march to oust the Iraqi president.