One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

I think war is a dangerous place.

I am a war president.

I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

Definition of victory which is really an important thing for the American people to understand is that we have an ally in the war on terror, that democracy is able to sustain itself and defend itself, and the Iraqi people feel that the security forces that we've trained up are capable of defending themselves against the violent.

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave...

If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.