is really irrelevant.

We realize we're plucking you out of the mainstream of your lives,

I try to put myself in the position of a juror,

This court is not a vehicle for public declarations,

If you are going to fight the Iraqi war before this jury, I am not going to stop you,

As I read the indictment, ... I really wonder whether this is not the time for the government to simplify the burden on the jury by abandoning some of these counts.