Scott McClellan: “I have a higher loyalty than my loyalty necessarily to my past work. That's a loyalty to the truth.”

I asked them point-blank, 'Were you involved in this in any way?' Both assured me in unequivocal terms, no.

It was the right decision to confront what was a grave and growing threat in the form of Saddam Hussein and his regime. It was based on solid and compelling evidence. And America is safer for it.

There have been some that have tried to suggest that we don't have a plan. I know some congressional members of Congress have -- Democratic members of Congress have suggested that, and they are flat-out wrong.

The presidency of George W. Bush veered terribly off course, and the administration was guilty of a, in his words, excessive embrace of the permanent campaign approach to governance.