I think it's critical that the president lay out whatever evidence to suggest that [Saddam] poses a bigger threat than he did five years ago.

We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.

I think it undermines the fragile coalition that we have with our allies,

They're rolling a dice and in my view they're going to come up the big losers, ... They think there is some political resonance in this but that's not what I hear.

Obviously, given the level of his dissatisfaction, you would think they would have picked up on it and maybe done something constructive with it,

I think it is fair to say that there is a growing number of economists that question the stimulus,