It's not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.

The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It's the United States.

I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.