When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

I don't do quagmires.

Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm evidence of voluntary and total disarmament. Saddam Hussein has the responsibility to provide that evidence, as directed, and in full

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.

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