I Think I Was Able To Survive

It Is Easy To Take Liberty For Granted, When You Have Never Had It Taken From You.

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.

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.

[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.

The Days Of Looking The Other Way While Despotic Regimes Trample Human Rights, Rob Their Nations' Wealth, And Then Excuse Their Failings By Feeding Their People A Steady Diet Of Anti-western Hatred Are Over.