Stephen J. Hadley: “It should surprise no one that freedom has allowed the expression of sectarian identity and the surfacing of sectarian…”

Death squads and armed gangs are going around murdering people, kidnapping people, sometimes in broad daylight. There has to be a consequence for that. People need to be held to account.

I think the reason that the free world follows us and that despots and dictators fear us is because of our values.

It is important both as a symbol of a national commitment to deal with this problem, but it is also important to rebalance a little bit this relationship between the Congress and the President.

I urge all Americans to unite behind the President's defensive decision to strike one of the world's most powerful terrorist who was organizing against--organizing attacks against Americans in Iraq in defiance, I might add, of U.N…