As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.

We also know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist network headed by a senior al Qaeda terrorist planner. This network runs a poison and explosive training camp in northeast Iraq, and many of its leaders are known to be in Baghdad.

We ought to make the pie higher.

There has been some conditionalities in the sense that this debt relief is supposed to release resources to be devoted to education, healthcare and infrastructure, for example. In the past African government made such promises but they never carried them out.

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

This is a war between good and evil. And we have made it clear to the world that we will stand strong on the side of good, and we expect other nations to join us. This is not a war between our world and their world. It is a war to save the world.

We will allow private and religious groups to compete to provide services in every federal, state and local social program.