The Iraqis have succeeded in drafting this constitution despite the action of terrorists who are trying to destroy the country's desire for a peaceful future,

The idea will be to have a broad-based government and then next year, to move to a new constitution, and then finally to democratic elections ... so who's going to end up governing Iraq ultimately? It's going to be the Iraqi people with a democratic constitution,

Such action in the past has been controversial, ... Each tightening of the law has met fierce opposition. But, for obvious reasons, the mood is now different.

whatever disagreements there have been about the wisdom of our action in Iraq.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

There does not appear, in our view, to be any legal basis in the Belarus constitution for the action that President Lukashenko has been taking.