out in the boonies.

It would have been interesting to have been able to watch it from afar, to see everything that was happening that day -- but from where I was, I didn't hear them at all.

That's far from accurate. We love you. We care about you, ... We don't believe your future is going to depend on this.

I'd like to see them gone, ... It wouldn't bug me if they didn't rebuild at all. Last year when they asked to be allowed to put their casinos on pilings, that was supposed to be all they needed. That was not all they needed.

The Gulf Coast I know and the people of the great state of Missisisppi are not dependent on casinos for whether they survive. They are dependent on what God put within them - that character I saw down there.

We are devastated by the loss of our friends, ... They were true American patriots and heroes who were performing a mission that is critical to the success of the coalition efforts to secure peace and freedom in Iraq.