If it was up to me, I would destroy them too.
President Obama: Anti-War Rally in Chicago October 2, 2002
"I don't oppose all wars. ... What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."
“But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military is a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history,”