We can even use a NATO-led force if necessary to attack Iraq through the mountains between Turkey and Iraq, and actually moving into northern Iraq, and I hope that we would be able to do that.

Everybody wants a timeline, but you can't get a timeline because, in Iraq, it's not a one-sided mechanical problem.

More than half the American people now believe that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake, ... They're right. But it would also be a mistake to pull out now, or to start pulling out or to set a date certain for pulling out. Instead we need a strategy to create a stable, democratizing and peaceful state in Iraq -- a strategy the administration has failed to develop and articulate.

He's firing it, lobbing it, across those mountains, indiscriminately targeting civilians in Albania,

I will strengthen them so that we can solve problems together, so that the use of military force is our last resort, not our first, and if America must act with force we can call on the military, financial, and moral resources of others.

Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms.