A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.

No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

We are in Iraq for as long as it takes to solve the problems in Iraq,

Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

We are in the process of trying to liberate that country. And at the moment where the war ends and the coalition forces occupy the areas where those capabilities - chemical and biological weapons - are likely to be, to the extent they haven't been moved out of the country, it obviously is important to find them.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.