Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.