Iraq

Yeah, you know, that's an interesting question. I don't quite view it as the broken egg; I view it as the cracked egg -- that - where we still have a chance to move beyond the broken egg. And I thought long and hard about the decision, Jim. Obviously it's a big decision for this theater in the war on terror, and you know, if I didn't believe we could keep the egg from fully cracking, I wouldn't ask 21,000 kids - additional kids to go into Iraq to reinforce those troops that are there.

16 January 2007

No question that the enemy has tried to spread sectarian violence. They use violence as a tool to do that.

March 22, 2006

I strongly believe what we're doing is the right thing. If I didn't believe it -- I'm going to repeat what I said before -- I'd pull the troops out, nor if I believed we could win, I would pull the troops out.

April 6, 2006

I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is -- my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.

interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Sept. 24, 2006

…Nobody's accused me of having a real sophisticated vocabulary. I understand that. And maybe their – their words are more sophisticated than mine, but when you pull out before the job is done, that's cut and run as far as I'm concerned.

17 October 2006