Bill Clinton: “Well, I'm going to stay with my tried and true formulation: I'm not ruling out, or in, any option. I was responding to…”

“Well, I'm going to stay with my tried and true formulation: I'm not ruling out, or in, any option. I was responding to what you said, that the Iraqi official thought we were just talking because we wouldn't want to discomfit anyone or make them mad. That's not true. This is a serious thing with me. This is a very serious thing. And you imagine the capacity of these tiny amounts of biological agents to cause great harm; it's something we need to get after. And I don't understand why they're not for getting after it. What can they possibly get out of this? If he really cared about his people--he's always talking about how bad his people have been hurt by these sanctions--if he really cared about his people he'd open all these sites, let everybody go in and look at them-- -- Mr. Lehrer. And get it behind him.”