If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.

If the Iraqi regime were disarming, we would know it because we would see it.

Given another year to make enough HEU (highly enriched uranium) for a nuclear weapon and a few more months to convert the uranium into weapon components, Iran could have its first nuclear weapons in 2009.

Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.