Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

Saddam Hussein had nerve gas and used it against his own people, he had used chemical weapons against the Iranians and he almost had a nuclear bomb in 1981 and in 1991. And he had been caught with anthrax in 1995 by the UN inspections after denying that he had it.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems...

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.