I Think I Was Able

I Feel Very Strongly That The Significance Of 9/11 Cannot Be Underestimated. It Forces Us To Think In New Ways About Strategy, About National Security, About How We Structure Our Forces And About How We Use U.s. Military Power.

I'm More Concerned With Bad Guys Who Got Out And Released Than I Am With A Few That In Fact Were Innocent.

We Also Have To Work, Though, Sort Of The Dark Side, If You Will. We've Got To Spend Time In The Shadows In The Intelligence World. A Lot Of What Needs To Be Done Here Will Have To Be Done Quietly, Without Any Discussion, Using Sources And Methods That Are Available To Our Intelligence Agencies... That's The World These Folks Operate In, And So It's Going To Be Vital For Us To Use Any Means At Our Disposal, Basically, To Achieve Our Objective.

We Have Great Information. They're Going To Welcome Us. It'll Be Like The American Army Going Through The Streets Of Paris. They're Sitting There Ready To Form A New Government. The People Will Be So Happy With Their Freedoms That We'll Probably Back Ourselves Out Of There Within A Month Or Two.

It's Very Important To Go Back And Keep In Mind The Distinction Between Handling These Events As Criminal Acts, Which Was The Way We Did Before 9/11, And Then Looking At 9/11 And Saying, 'this Is Not A Criminal Act,' Not When You Destroy 16 Acres Of Manhattan, Kill 3,000 Americans, Blow A Big Hole In The Pentagon. That's An Act Of War.