MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - President Bush said on Friday he believed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but that the United States had "no imminent plans" to attack.

"What I've told others, including President Fox, is we have no imminent plans to use military operations," Bush said in Monterrey after meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox. "We'll be deliberate. We'll consult with our friends and allies. But we'll deal with Saddam Hussein, and he knows that. We'd like to see a regime change in Iraq."

In his State of the Union address earlier this year Bush included Iraq in a three-country "axis of evil," with Iran and North Korea, that might be future targets in the U.S. war on terrorism.