I don't think it's good for America to have a former president undermine a current president.

Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens - leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children.

"Reinvention" is a word that doesn't fit into my vocabulary.

We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.

Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe women in the Middle East want to live in a free society. I believe mothers and fathers want to raise their children in a free and peaceful world. I believe all these things, because freedom is not America's gift to the world, freedom is the almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world.

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.