The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror... so today I vetoed it.
George W. BushI sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
George W. BushWhat matters is that in this Iraq campaign that we clarify the different points of view. And there are a lot of people in the Democratic Party who believe that the best course of action is to leave Iraq before the job is done. Period. And they're wrong. And the American people have got to understand the consequence of leaving Iraq before the job is done. We're not going to leave Iraq before the job is done and we'll complete the mission in Iraq.
George W. Bush