Question

President George W. Bush made the statement below on January 28, 2003, in his State of the Union address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." What made this statement significant for many Americans?

Answer 1

It implied that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons.

Answer 2

The threat of a nuclear weapon and twisting public opinion against Iraq.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Bush administration created the decision to go to war by concentrating on the threat to the United States posed by Saddam Hussein 's nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and his alleged links to the terror organization of Al Qaeda. Authorities stirred up photos of Iraqi mushroom clouds around cities of the United States and of Saddam passing chemical and biological weapons to Osama bin Laden, intended to build new and more deadly terror attacks. However, evidences to prove these allegations were meager.