I Think They're In The Last Throes,

I Do Not Believe The President Requires Any Additional Authorization From The Congress Before Committing Us Forces To Achieve Our Objectives In The Gulf.

To Bring The Worst Of The Worst Terrorists Inside The United States Would Be Cause For Great Danger And Regret In The Years To Come. It Is Recklessness Cloaked In Righteousness, And Would Make The American People Less Safe.

Direct Threats Require Decisive Action.

It’s Clearly Established In Terms Of Training, Provision Of Bomb-making Experts, Training Of People With Respect To Chemical And Biological Warfare Capabilities, That Al-qaeda Sent Personnel To Iraq For Training And So Forth.

I Have Argued In The Past, And Would Again, If We Had Been Able To Pre-empt The Attacks Of 9/11 Would We Have Done It? And I Think Absolutely. We Have To Be Prepared Now To Take The Kind Of Bold Action That's Being Contemplated With Respect To Iraq In Order To Ensure That We Don't Get Hit With A Devastating Attack When The Terrorists' Organization Gets Married Up With A Rogue State That's Willing To Provide It With The Kinds Of Deadly Capabilities That Saddam Hussein Has Developed And Used Over The Years.