 The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more. |
| Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections. |
| The Iraqi elections were an important first step. |
| You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently. |
| It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace. |
| Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists. |
| Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead. |
| I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory. |
| But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism. |
