Donald H. Rumsfeld: “I may have answered an earlier question so cryptically, or briefly, that there might have been a misunderstanding.”

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

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

You go to war with the army you have, not the one you might want or wish to have.

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.