to support America's war on terrorism and to rid Iraq of a terrible dictator.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

had hoped to hear acknowledgment from the president of our failures in Iraq, the war on terrorism and the administration's concrete plans for solving them with our allies and through the United Nations.

I voted to support the war in Iraq and want to do nothing that appears to undermine our president, ... But I feel that I cannot sit idly by and just watch the United States be bogged down in a guerrilla war in Iraq with more and more American casualties every day.

Without a doubt, terrorism and the war in Iraq will drive most of the address, as well as domestic issues such as tax cuts, business growth and rebuilding of the Gulf Coast.

Iraq is a central front in the war on terror, and it is absolutely essential that we win it. We cannot tuck tail and run. We have to prevail,