Iraq invasion 'made America safer' - Bush

Invading Iraq made America safer, President George Bush said, defending his war decision in the face of a Senate report debunking White House justifications for attacking Saddam Hussein’s government.

Bush presented his case in a speech at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, yesterday, in his first public reaction to criticism by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which said last week that the administration’s belief that Saddam had chemical and biological weapons and was working to make nuclear weapons was wrong, based on false or overstated CIA analyses.