Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy.

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.

We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.

Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that.