The Issue Is That [saddam] Has Chemical

I Was In End Stage Heart Failure, Liver And Kidneys Shutting Down, And On An Emergency Basis They Went In And Planted A Pump In My Chest. It Was Battery Operated. That Kept Me Alive For 20 Months And That Got Me To The Transplant. And I Wake Up Every Morning Now With A Smile On My Face, Thankful For The Gift Of Another Day I Never Expected To See.

After 9/11 We Were Prepared To Use Military Force. We Were Prepared To Go After Not Only The Terrorists, But Those Who Sponsor Terror And Provide Sanctuary And Safe Harbor For Them. We Were Prepared To Use Our Intelligence Assets The Way We Would Against An Enemy That Threatened The United States Itself, To Put In Place, For Example, Things Like The Terror Surveillance Program And To Have A Robust Interrogation Program On Detainees. Those Are The Acts You Take When You Feel You're At War And That The Very Existence Of The Nation Is Threatened.

It's Very Important To Go Back And Keep In Mind The Distinction Between Handling These Events As Criminal Acts, Which Was The Way We Did Before 9/11, And Then Looking At 9/11 And Saying, 'this Is Not A Criminal Act,' Not When You Destroy 16 Acres Of Manhattan, Kill 3,000 Americans, Blow A Big Hole In The Pentagon. That's An Act Of War.

I Think The Decision That's Been Made With Respect To Allowing Gays To Serve Openly In The Military Is A Good One.

Unfortunately, We Don't Have The Option Of Marriage In Our Country. We Could Go To Britain Or Spain Or Argentina And Do Something Symbolic, But That's Not What I Want. I Want To Have The Rights Of Anybody Else In My Home Country. I Don't Want To Be A Second-class Citizen