Every country should be tired of going to war. War is a terrible thing. If I had been in Congress, as much as I would be inclined naturally to be supportive of a president, any president, I would have voted no, had the issue come to a vote.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.

I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.