'Enemies of the legitimate Iraqi government' -- how's that? |
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do no know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know |
[? In Washington, Bush administration officials insisted the campaign against terror was going largely as expected, countering assertions by some critics that they may have underestimated the Taliban.] We said it would be long. We said it would be difficult, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. |
[• In northern Iraq, U.S. troops shut down a pipeline Rumsfeld said was supplying oil to Syria in violation of U.N. sanctions.] I cannot assure you that all illegal oil flowing from Iraq into Syria is shut off, ... I just hope it is. |
[•] Saddam Hussein cannot use chemical or biological weapons himself. He has to use his chain of command and military officers, ... We are sending a very clear message to the people around him that they would be well advised not to use those weapons. And in the event they do, they would wish they hadn't. |
[And when it comes to a so-called smoking gun, they say the burden of proof is on the Iraqis to prove they do not have weapons of mass destruction -- not on the United States or the United Nations to prove they do.] Thus far, ... Iraq has been unwilling to do so. Its declaration was false. We're nearing the end of the road, and with every other option exhausted. |
[As the president said in April,] The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a crushing defeat for the forces of tyranny and terror, and a watershed event in the global democratic revolution. ... Political progress is necessary to defeat the insurgency. |
[Asked by a reporter,] Are the Chinese still helping Iraq? ... I don't know that they stopped. |
[Asked by Sen. John McCain of Arizona,] What were the instructions to the guards? ... That is what the investigation that I've indicated has been undertaken, is determining. |
[Asked to clarify the] semantics ... I think we're going to get him. How's that? |
[Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he was confident the military campaign would be successful in removing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from power.] Things are going very well, ... the pressure is continuing on the Iraqi regime, and [the regime] will not be there in the period ahead. |
[Even the White House leaked out word that President Bush was] not satisfied ... will stay in my Cabinet. |
[He said he also] assumed ... we have an obligation related to the Taiwan Relations Act and with regard to the defense buildup of Taiwan, or any weapons sales that are pending to the Republic of China, the problem is caused by the Chinese missile buildup, which continues apace, and which we believe is the primary driver for tensions in the Strait and our concerns there. |
[He said the soldiers in Iraq] see the progress they are making and they are absolutely dumbfounded by what they see and the impression that's left by America's media here in the United States. ... increasingly optimistic about the future of their country and increasingly negative about the insurgency. |
[In an interview Thursday on CNN's] Larry King Live, ... I submitted my resignation to President Bush twice during that period and told him that ... I felt that he ought to make the decision as to whether or not I stayed on. And he made that decision and said he did want me to stay on. |