The First Official Statements Of President Asif

This Cannot Be The United States Being The Air Force For Shia Militias, Or A Shia On Sunni Arab Fight.

I Am Neither A Pessimist Nor An Optimist. I Am A Realist, And The Reality In Iraq Is That It Has Been Very Hard And It Continues To Be Hard.

Us Ambassador To Iraq Ryan Crocker And I Have Repeatedly Sought To Emphasize That The Progress In Iraq Is Fragile And Also, Possibly, Reversible.

I Just Don't Know Whether It Was All Destroyed Years Ago - I Mean, There's No Question That There Were Chemical Weapons Years Ago - Whether They Were Destroyed Right Before The War, (or) Whether They're Still Hidden.

First And Foremost Is To Not Allow The Reestablishment, If You Will, Of An Extremist Sanctuary That Can Export The Kind Of Terror That Ended Up With Terrorists Taking Down The World Trade Center And Plowing Into The Pentagon And A Field In Pennsylvania. That's The Point: We Started This War Because The Sept. 11 Attack Came From This Area. And We Do Not Fight Alone, But With Some 40 Allies Who Share That View.