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

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

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

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is, in all of the polls I've seen, the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

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