In his 2002 State of the Union Address U.S. President George W. Bush identified North Korea, Iran and Iraq as representing significant threats to the United States. He said, "States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world." In this speech he would outline the objectives for the War on Terror.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:George_W._Bush" class="extiw" title="w:en:George W. Bush"><span title="President of the United States from 2001 to 2009">George W. Bush</span></a>
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