When we are stable and able to build our security forces, you'll have a role in fighting real terrorists, ... One day Americans will leave and we will have a country to run.

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

If the price of oil rises, Iraqis will be paying for the incompetence of the government in maintaining security and in the meantime millions of Iraqis will not be able to afford the proposed price.

I am proud of our president, our troops, and our allies, ... Yes, we are fighting to preserve our national security. But we are also fighting to preserve the universal ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I'm certainly not going to return it, ... Tom DeLay has been fighting for everything important: less taxes, stronger national security and to protect our families. He has helped us restore sales tax deductions to Texans, and he played a key role in getting federal road dollars.

These soldiers were operating and fighting alongside Afghan National Security Forces,