US President George W. Bush said on Saturday that it was right for the United States to go to war with Iraq even though it had failed to find Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

"Although we have not found stockpiles of weapons, I believe we were right to go into Iraq," Bush said at a rally held at York, Pennsylvania.

"We removed a declared enemy of America who had the capability of producing weapons of mass destruction and could have passed that capability to terrorists bent on acquiring them. In the world after September the 11th, that was a risk we could not afford to take," Bush said.

Bush accused the deposed former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein of torturing and tormenting the Iraqi people. "We must never forget the mass graves of the thousands he murdered. Because we acted, America is more secure," Bush said.

The United States has failed to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a main excuse for Bush's decision to invade Iraq and topple the Saddam regime.

Source: Xinhua