The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.