Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.

We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market.

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

We are at war to liberate Iraq, to protect the people of the United States and other countries from the devastating impact of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists or the Iraqi government to kill thousands of innocent civilians.

Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.