Shortly after takeoff, radar and radio communications were lost.

Given the conditions of last night, I think one of the big questions that has to be answered is how much information and what type of information did the flight crew have to make a landing at that runway?

All of these will be looked at to determine what factors may have been involved that led to the event.

I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.

We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.

I think the essential message was that Saddam Hussein represented a serious threat to the United States and to our friends and allies in the region.