We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.