Bush takes on Iraqi war critics

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"Saddam was a threat, and the American people and the world are safer because he is no longer in power," he said.

It is the last of four keynote speeches on Iraq from a president under increasing pressure on the issue.

"Many intelligence agencies judged that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and it's true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong," said Mr Bush in the speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.

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