It would not be my assumption that the military course is the only action available to (the president) today,

I support that decision, ... Many of my staff are directly affected and I think it is a wise course of action simply because of the unknowns, because of the uncertainty.

I think it would be premature to consider any other action in Iraq.

We have an anticipated debt of $400 billion this year, and that's before the first dollar in whatever military action may be required will be expended, ... Without a question, this will exacerbate the debt and complicate our fiscal circumstances beyond anything, I would say, in history.

On September 14th, we voted unanimously to send our troops into action against the perpetrators of the cowardly and heinous attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. That was our constitutional duty, and it is one that none of us takes lightly,