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President George W. Bush shakes hands with Iraqi interim Prime
Minister Ayad Allawi after their joint press conference in the Rose Garden Thursday, Sept. 23, 2004.
President Bush on Thursday said, "Based on all the information we have today, I believe we were right to take action,
and America is safer today with Saddam Hussein in prison. He retained the knowledge, the materials, the means, and the
intent to produce weapons of mass destruction."