The fires there were contained and no longer were a threat prior to a declaration being made.

This is a major declaration of intent. We no longer want to be talked about--we now want to do the talking for ourselves.

Most of the threat for fires was well to the northwest of San Antonio.

Clandestine labs are like forest fires cropping up all over the state. When you have something that's big and contained, at least you can fight it in the same way you always have.

I brought out a series of compact discs which contained the totality of the Iraqi declaration,

We have dug ourselves a deep hole in which the world's only superpower can no longer manage a credible threat of force in a situation where our interests and our values are clearly threatened, ... Our interests and values converge clearly here. We must not permit the genocide that (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic has in mind for Kosovo to continue. We must take action.