http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-cairo-university-6-04-09
Obama speaks at Cairo University in 2009

http://www.johnpilger.com/articles/colin-powell-said-iraq-was-not-a-threat
Excerpt:

Colin Powell said Iraq was not a threat

22 September 2003

Writing in the Daily Mirror, John Pilger reveals that both US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Bush's closest adviser Condaleeza Rice said, in 2001, that Saddam Hussein was effectively disarmed and no threat - putting the lie to their own propaganda.