But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

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

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

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.