Our job is to help Iraq forces be better equipped, to help their police be able to deal with these extremists and to help their government succeed.

We reflect on what has been lost and comfort those enduring a profound grief. And somehow we know that a brighter morning will come.

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess - the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a unique people chosen by God.

... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?