Donald H. Rumsfeld: “A steady stream of errors all seem to be in -- of a nature to inflame the situation and to give heart to the terrorists.”

No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

But, as Donald Rumsfeld, who, sadly, passed away today, said numerous times, the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

Success in Fallujah will deal a blow to the terrorists in the country.

Our goal is to defend the American people and to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and to liberate the Iraqi people.