George W. Bush: “Iraqis have demonstrated their courage and their determination to live in freedom, and that has inspired the world.”

Today, we remember your loss, we share your sorrow and we honor the men and women that you have loved so long and so well.

Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you.

To you and the honored dead, our country is forever grateful.

Those who have lost their precious children are facing a grief no parents should ever know.