Simply Stated, There Is No Doubt That

The Bottom Line Is That We've Had Enormous Successes (in Iraq) And We Will Continue To Have Enormous Successes.

When We Get People Who Are More Concerned About Reading The Rights To An Al Qaeda Terrorist Than They Are With Protecting The United States Against People Who Are Absolutely Committed To Do Anything They Can To Kill Americans, Then I Worry.

I Think Things Have Gotten So Bad Inside Iraq, From The Standpoint Of The Iraqi People, My Belief Is We Will, In Fact, Be Greeted As Liberators.

I Think, In Fact, The Situation With Respect To Al Qaeda, To Say That, You Know, That Was A Big Attack We Had On 9/11, But It's Not Likely Again, I Just Think That's Dead Wrong. I Think The Biggest Strategic Threat The United States Faces Today Is The Possibility Of Another 9/11 With A Nuclear Weapon Or A Biological Agent Of Some Kind. And I Think Al Qaeda Is Out There Even As We Meet, Trying To Figure Out How To Do That.

After 9/11 We Were Prepared To Use Military Force. We Were Prepared To Go After Not Only The Terrorists, But Those Who Sponsor Terror And Provide Sanctuary And Safe Harbor For Them. We Were Prepared To Use Our Intelligence Assets The Way We Would Against An Enemy That Threatened The United States Itself, To Put In Place, For Example, Things Like The Terror Surveillance Program And To Have A Robust Interrogation Program On Detainees. Those Are The Acts You Take When You Feel You're At War And That The Very Existence Of The Nation Is Threatened.