If anybody thinks that I'm [in Iraq] to throw water on a fire, they're wrong,

Now is the time for resolve, not retreat. Turning our backs on post-war Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing post-war Germany back to the Nazis.

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

Comparing me to putting the water department at jeopardy is like going to Iraq because Saddam had something to do with 9/11. That was a hell of a puzzle to put together,

We needed a tremendous amount of manpower to get the water and the hose up to extinguish the fire,