It's Important To Take Risks.

God's Signs Are Not Always The Ones We Look For. We Learn In Tragedy That His Purposes Are Not Always Our Own. Yet The Prayers Of Private Suffering, Whether In Our Homes Or In This Great Cathedral, Are Known And Heard, And Understood.

The Iraqis Needed To Know That We Weren't Going To Leave Them Alone. No Matter How Difficult It Was, The United States Would Help Them Realize The Universal Desire To Be Free. Now Of Course, If You Didn't Believe In The Universality Of Freedom, Then Of Course, You Wouldn't Act. I Care How They Live And I Believe A Free Iraq Will Be Transformative.

They Misunderestimated Me.

My Administration Has Been Calling Upon All The Leaders In The - In The Middle East To Do Everything They Can To Stop The Violence, To Tell The Different Parties Involved That Peace Will Never Happen.

We Know That Dictators Are Quick To Choose Aggression, While Free Nations Strive To Resolve Differences In Peace. We Know That Oppressive Governments Support Terror, While Free Governments Fight The Terrorists In Their Midst. We Know That Free Peoples Embrace Progress And Life, Instead Of Becoming The Recruits For Murderous Ideologies.