Europe is a collection of free countries.

The UN inspectors do not have the capability to find hidden weapons in a country the size of Iraq if the Iraqi government is working to conceal them.

I mean, the idea that we could have peace no matter what anybody else in the world does didn't make sense to me.

I'm not saying that getting to the bottom of this WMD issue isn't important. It is important. But it is not of immediate consequence.

The world community knows that Iraq has chemical weapons and biological weapons.

I think the essential message was that Saddam Hussein represented a serious threat to the United States and to our friends and allies in the region.

Here we are less than two years after the liberation of Baghdad, and an enormous amount of reconstruction has been done.

I did think it was important to do what we could to train up Iraqis as a security force in advance of our military operation.

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.