Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

What is the value of having millions of people in Iraq not having a repressive regime? What is the value of having the Iraqi regime not shooting at UK and US aircraft almost every day? What is the value of the Iraqis having a free press? What is the value of the foreign minister of Iraq going to Paris, calling for an end of the Gadhafi regime and citing Iraq as a model, as an example, that in fact a freer political system can exist in that part of the world?

"Do you have any regrets?" Of course I do.

A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.

An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.