We Have To Make America

We Need, From Time To Time, To Use Military Force Or All Of The Resources At Our Command In Order To Defend The Nation And Defend Our Friends. Sometimes, That Requires Us To Take Actions That Generate Controversy. I Think There Are Probably Some Who Actually Believe, If We Just Go Talk Nice To These Folks, Everything Is Going To Be Ok. I Don't Think The World Works That Way.

[in Response To The Question "do You Think That You Underestimated The Insurgency's Strength?"] I Think So. I Guess If I Look Back On It Now, I Don't Think Anybody Anticipated The Level Of Violence That We've Encountered.

America Has Shown We Are Serious About Removing The Threat Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction... We Now Know That Saddam Hussein Had The Capacity To Produce Weapons Of Mass Destruction.... We Know He Had The Necessary Infrastructure Because We Found The Labs And The Dual-use Facilities That Could Be Used For These Chemical And Biological Agents. We Know That He Was Developing The Delivery Systems - Ballistic Missiles - That Had Been Prohibited By The United Nations.

The Important Thing Here To Understand Is That The People That Are At Guantanamo Are Bad People. I Mean, These Are Terrorists For The Most Part.

I Think, In Fact, The Situation With Respect To Al Qaeda, To Say That, You Know, That Was A Big Attack We Had On 9/11, But It's Not Likely Again, I Just Think That's Dead Wrong. I Think The Biggest Strategic Threat The United States Faces Today Is The Possibility Of Another 9/11 With A Nuclear Weapon Or A Biological Agent Of Some Kind. And I Think Al Qaeda Is Out There Even As We Meet, Trying To Figure Out How To Do That.