Democracy Will Be Transformative. It Will Help

I Sent American Troops To Iraq To Make Its People Free, Not To Make Them American. Iraqis Will Write Their Own History And Find Their Own Way.

If A Person Doesn't Have The Capacity That We All Want That Person To Have, I Suspect Hope Is In The Far Distant Future, If At All.

And This Is An Administration - We're Not Into Nation-building, We're Focused On Justice. And We're Going To Get Justice. It's Going To Take A While, Probably. But I'm A Patient Man. Nothing Will Diminish My Will And My Determination - Nothing.

In Addition To Declaring And Destroying All Of Its Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Iraq Must End Its Support For Terrorism. It Must Cease The Persecution Of Its Civilian Population. It Must Stop All Illicit Trade Outside The Oil-for-food Program. And It Must Release Or Account For All Gulf War Personnel, Including An American Pilot, Whose Fate Is Still Unknown. By Taking These Steps, And Only By Taking These Steps, The Iraqi Regime Has An Opportunity To Avoid Conflict. These Steps Would Also Change The Nature Of The Iraqi Regime Itself. America Hopes The Regime Will Make That Choice.

Israel Is Our Ally And In That We've Made A Very Strong Commitment To Support Israel, We Will Support Israel If Her Security Is Threatened.