Europe is a collection of free countries. |
Here we are less than two years after the liberation of Baghdad, and an enormous amount of reconstruction has been done. |
I did think it was important to do what we could to train up Iraqis as a security force in advance of our military operation. |
I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy. |
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. |
I mean, the idea that we could have peace no matter what anybody else in the world does didn't make sense to me. |
I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable. |
I think the essential message was that Saddam Hussein represented a serious threat to the United States and to our friends and allies in the region. |
I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet. |
I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction. |
If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region. |
If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions. |
Israel's having no alternative to peace implies Israel cannot survive without peace. |
It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait. |
No, the United States does not target civilians. |