Original sentence: 's then-purported beliefs that Iraq was engaging in production of weapons of mass destruction and that Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda had ties to terrorist organizations, creating, in the presented view of the U., an imminent threat both to the U.Members of the Bush administration, such as Vice President Dick Cheney and then Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, alleged further, as some of them still continue to argue in the face of countervailing evidence, that the Hussein government was responsible for the September 11 attacks.Principal arguments given for this policy of so-called "regime change" are the U.The Bush administration stated that removing Saddam Hussein from power was one of its major goals of invading Iraq.and to the world community
Edited sentence: Bush's advisers, notably Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, even went as far as alleging that the Hussein government was responsible for the September 11 attacks.Iraq's alleged production of weapons of mass destruction, and purported ties to terrorist organizations, amounted to an imminent threat to the U.The Bush administration made clear that removing Saddam Hussein from power was a major goal.The principal stated justifications for this policy of "regime change" were that.and the world community